7/7/2023 0 Comments Cleopatra joyce tyldesley![]() ![]() ![]() What she was not, Tyldesley argues, was the villainous vamp portrayed in the movies. Neither an Egyptian by blood nor an actual Greek - she could trace her ancestry on her father's side to the original Ptolemy, a general of Alexander the Great - she was a fabulous hybrid of those cultures and several others which were native to the Egypt of the first century B.C. As Joyce Tyldesley phrases it in her fascinating and irresistible biography, "Cleopatra, Last Queen of Egypt," "it is clearly never going to be possible to write a conventional biography of Cleopatra." So Tyldesley has gone ahead and written one.Īn archaeologist, author ("Daughters of Isis"), and popular consultant for TV shows on ancient history, Tyldesley has chosen to re-create her subject by putting together the puzzle pieces of history that surround Cleopatra's life and legend. Cleopatra has generated more fame - in the form of poems, paintings, books, plays and films - per known fact than any woman in history. ![]()
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