Cleopatra: A Life
by Stacy Schiff
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Posted on 12/08/2010 6:31:06 AM PST by SunkenCiv
We are in a Cleopatra moment. Three books featuring the notorious Egyptian queen have been published in the past few months of which Cleopatra: A Life by Pulitzer-Prize winning biographer Stacy Schiff is generating bombshell-size buzz. Michiko Kakutani gave Schiff's book a rave in The New York Times, the biography was fodder for Maureen Dowd's op-ed column (NYT), on NPR Tina Brown declared Schiff's book a "must-read" on the subject of women and power, Judith Thurman's round-up (The New Yorker) of the goddess' most recent chroniclers conferred upon Schiff's opus alone the honorific "a work of literature." But the mega-buzz arrived with Hollywood producer Scott Rudin's announcement that he'd bought the rights to Schiff's book with James Cameron (our Cecil B. DeMille?) directing a 3-D, action-packed extravaganza starring Angelina Jolie. And rumor has it that Steven Soderbergh is making a rock musical about the Egyptian queen's passions and travails starring Catherine Zeta-Jones.
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Angelina Jolie?! Marc Antony must be rolling over in whatever grave he’s in.
Cleopatra was a genuis of Greek descent and was not particularly beautiful. But she must have had charm as well as genuis for snaring so many powerful guys, lol!
Tina Brown and MoDowd are drooling over this book, the first red flag
But this line in the review clinched it for me: Schiff gives us her version of the Queen
I will skip this one.
Well, Jolie puts the “box” in “box office”. Also, despite modern, anachronistic revisionism, Cleo VII banged everything in sight, and was only put on the throne and kept there by the Romans. Caesar took over the whole country with a small number of men, and there was barely a peep out of the lower Nile valley throughout imperial rule.
Yeah, I made a point of underlying the buzz-names, such as James Cameron. I mean, this book has too many leftist dingleberries dangling off of it to be worth much of anything. And it’s not as if attempts to rehabilitate the poor misunderstood inbred mass-murderess floozy haven’t been made before. Michael Grant makes an ass out of himself defending her by either ignoring or blowing by what she’s known to have done, and digging in his little heels regarding the surviving contemporary accounts, such as Herod’s complaint that within minutes of meeting him she suggested they dismiss their attendants so he could do her.
:’)
So I dont get it? Is this a book an attempt to somehow hang modern liberal women’s ideas on her like a champion? And an attempt to revise her legacy? Like she was not slutted out? I am confused.
Cleo was the first royal in her Greek family to speak other languages other than Greek.
She spoke 9 languages to include the language of the street which the royals never learned to speak.
She was a very smart person. Unfortunately, history has made her appear like whore.
Angelina Jolie — reminds me of Octo-Mom.
(Except I believe there is a bust of her out there somewhere as well.
For you history greats….Cleo had a child by Julius Caesar. I never read a follow up on this baby.
Anybody?
Thank you.
Caesarion had a tutor, a very smart feller; they were ready to climb on the boat to head off to the east (India, probably), and the tutor said, look, Octavian is an intelligent man, he’ll be reasonable, plus I have a tendency to get chest colds during the rainy season. So, instead of running for it, Caesarion sought out Octavian.
Octavian had him executed.
Your handle cries havok and lets slip the dogs of war, at least as far as the FR software is concerned.
Okay, now I’ve got the way.
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