Librería Samer Atenea
Kálamo Books
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
Cleopatra: The Last Pharaoh and the Living Goddess explores one of the most famous, powerful, and misunderstood women of the ancient world.Cleopatra VII Philopator was the final sovereign of Ptolemaic Egypt, ruling at a time when Roman expansion threatened the independence of her kingdom. Later Roman accounts often reduced her to a story of seduction and defeat, yet she was a skilled monarch who understood language, diplomacy, dynastic politics, and the sacred responsibilities of Egyptian kingship.Drawing upon ancient writers, temple imagery, royal titles, coins, and surviving iconography, this volume restores Cleopatra to the political and religious world in which she ruled. It examines her identification with Isis, her defence of Egyptian sovereignty, and her alliances with Julius Caesar and Mark Antony within the wider struggle for control of the Mediterranean.Rather than repeating familiar legend, the book considers the collision between Roman imperial ambition and an Egyptian tradition grounded in continuity, divine order, and sacred monarchy.Part of the Powerful Female Rulers of Antiquity series, this volume examines a woman whose life shaped the political and cultural world of antiquity. 6
