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The figure of Cleopatra is shrouded in myths. She went down in history as a depraved seductress, the companion of two prominent Romans - Julius Caesar and Marcus Antonius. But the history of this Egyptian woman was written by men. What can a woman say about her? Stacey Schiff tried to take a fresh look at the life of the Egyptian queen, to show her separately from men and to determine whether historians of the past were wrong.

This is a thorough and interesting study of Cleopatra's life, in which the author separates truth from fiction and prejudice from reality. And the reader is presented with an educated, incredibly rich, brilliant woman, the powerful ruler of the great Egyptian kingdom.