Source: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130976125&ft=1&f=100
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
How History And Hollywood Got 'Cleopatra' Wrong
The Egyptian queen is most often remembered as a beautiful seductress. But in Cleopatra: A Life, biographer Stacy Schiff explains how the well-educated, enormously wealthy, powerful female pharaoh was actually a canny political strategist and tough negotiator.
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