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100	1		_aPreston, Diana, _d1952- _948836
245	1	0	_aCleopatra and Antony : _bpower, love, and politics in the ancient world / _cDiana Preston.
250			_a1st U.S. ed.
260			_aNew York : _bWalker & Co., _c2009.
300			_aviii, 333 p. : _bill. (chiefly col.), map ; _c25 cm.
500			_aOriginally published: London : Doubleday, 2008.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [315]-318) and index.
505	0		_aI. Dynasty of eagles. Keeping it in the family ; Siblings and Sibylline prophecies -- II. Romulus' cesspit. The race for glory ; "Odi et amo" ; Crossing the Rubicon -- III. Queen of Egypt, mistress of Rome. Like a virgin ; The Alexandrian War ; "Veni, vidi, vici" ; "Slave of the times" ; The Ides of March -- IV. Isis alone. "Flight of the queen" ; Ruler of the East -- V. Taming Heracles. Mighty Aphrodite ; "Give it to Fulvia" ; Single mother ; "The awful calamity" -- VI. Gods of the East. Sun and Moon ; "Theatrical, overdone, and anti-Roman" ; "A woman of Egypt" ; The Battle of Actium ; After Actium ; Death on the Nile ; "Too many Caesars is not a good thing" -- Postscript: "This pair so famous" -- Appendix: Putting a face to a famous name -- Who was who in the first century BC.
520			_aThe story of the world's best-remembered celebrity couple, set against the political backdrop of their time. In 30 BCE, the 39-year-old queen of Egypt, Cleopatra, took her own life rather than be paraded in chains through Rome by her conqueror, the future first emperor Augustus. A few days earlier, her lover of eleven years, Mark Antony, had himself committed suicide. Historian Diana Preston explores the lives and times of a couple whose names--two millennia later--still invoke passion and intrigue. Preston views this drama as an integral part of the military, political, and ideological struggle that culminated in the rise of the Roman Empire. Cleopatra ruled Egypt with political shrewdness. Her affair with Julius Caesar linked Egypt with Rome; in the aftermath of the civil war following Caesar's murder, her alliance with Antony, and his split with Octavian, set the stage for the end of the Roman Republic.--From publisher description.
600	0	0	_aCleopatra, _cQueen of Egypt, _d-30 B.C. _945216
600	1	0	_aAntonius, Marcus, _d83 B.C.?-30 B.C. _9134390
650		0	_aCouples _zEgypt _vBiography. _9134391
650		0	_aLove _xPolitical aspects _zEgypt _xHistory _yTo 1500. _9134392
650		0	_aPolitical culture _zEgypt _xHistory _yTo 1500. _9134393
650		0	_aPower (Social sciences) _zEgypt _xHistory _yTo 1500. _9134394
651		0	_aEgypt _xHistory _y332-30 B.C. _vBiography. _9134395
651		0	_aEgypt _xPolitics and government _y332-30 B.C. _9134396
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