Cleopatra S Heir

Author : Gillian Bradshaw
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2002-05-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429971126

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Cleopatra's Heir by Gillian Bradshaw Pdf

The might and power of Julius Caesar, the man who conquered the known world. The beauty of Cleopatra, the woman who conquered the conqueror. Together they could have forged an empire whose power had never been seen before. Tragically, it was not meant to be. But what of the son who was born of their passion? Gillian Bradshaw gives us a possible answer in Cleopatra's Heir, a riveting historical novel drawn from meticulous research and a unique historical premise. The young son of Julius Caesar and the fabled Cleopatra, Caesarion was seen by some as the hope of the marriage between Rome and Egypt, by others as the folly of a commander's lust for a wanton foreign schemer. For the new Roman ruler, Octavius, Caesarion is the threat that could topple his dreams of a safe and peaceful Roman Empire. The brutal truth is that Caesarion could not be allowed to live. But what if he somehow managed to survive the inevitable assassination and went underground to hide his identity? How would he find a way to live when he has always chosen and honor, even though his life has been shadowed by forces greater than anyone should have to cope with? Caesarion will travel the lands that he thinks he knows so well only to discover that he knew his people not at all. And only after that discovery, when he loses it all and is forced to confront his humanity, will Caesarion finally come to know friendship, honesty, and love. And the essential truth that a man can be noble and true, bereft of land, titles . . . and even a name. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Gillian Bradshaw
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2003-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0613708768

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Cleopatra's Heir by Gillian Bradshaw Pdf

The might and power of Julius Caesar, the man who conquered the known world. The beauty of Cleopatra, the woman who conquered the conqueror. Together they could have forged an empire whose power had never been seen before. Tragically, it was not meant to be. But what of the son who was born of their passion? Gillian Bradshaw gives us a possible answer in "Cleopatra's Heir, a riveting historical novel drawn from meticulous research and a unique historical premise. The young son of Julius Caesar and the fabled Cleopatra, Caesarion was seen by some as the hope of the marriage between Rome and Egypt, by others as the folly of a commander's lust for a wanton foreign schemer. For the new Roman ruler, Octavius, Caesarion is the threat that could topple his dreams of a safe and peaceful Roman Empire. The brutal truth is that Caesarion could not be allowed to live. But what if he somehow managed to survive the inevitable assassination and went underground to hide his identity? How would he find a way to live when he has always chosen and honor, even though his life has been shadowed by forces greater than anyone should have to cope with? Caesarion will travel the lands that he thinks he knows so well only to discover that he knew his people not at all. And only after that discovery, when he loses it all and is forced to confront his humanity, will Caesarion finally come to know friendship, honesty, and love. And the essential truth that a man can be noble and true, bereft of land, titles . . . and even a name.

Author : Diana E. E. Kleiner
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674265158

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Cleopatra and Rome by Diana E. E. Kleiner Pdf

With the full panorama of her life forever lost, Cleopatra touches us in a series of sensational images: floating through a perfumed mist down the Nile; dressed as Venus for a tryst at Tarsus; unfurled from a roll of linens before Caesar; couchant, the deadly asp clasped to her breast. Through such images, each immortalizing the Egyptian queen's encounters with legendary Romans--Julius Caesar, Mark Antony, and Octavian Augustus--we might also chart her rendezvous with the destiny of Rome. So Diana Kleiner shows us in this provocative book, which opens an entirely new perspective on one of the most intriguing women who ever lived. Cleopatra and Rome reveals how these iconic episodes, absorbed into a larger historical and political narrative, document a momentous cultural shift from the Hellenistic world to the Roman Empire. In this story, Cleopatra's death was not an end but a beginning--a starting point for a wide variety of appropriations by Augustus and his contemporaries that established a paradigm for cultural conversion. In this beautifully illustrated book, we experience the synthesis of Cleopatra's and Rome's defining moments through surviving works of art and other remnants of what was once an opulent material culture: religious and official architecture, cult statuary, honorary portraiture, villa paintings, tombstones, and coinage, but also the theatrical display of clothing, perfume, and hair styled to perfection for such ephemeral occasions as triumphal processions or barge cruises. It is this visual culture that best chronicles Cleopatra's legend and suggests her subtle but indelible mark on the art of imperial Rome at the critical moment of its inception.

Author : L. Burres
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1482063131

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Cleopatra's Heir by L. Burres Pdf

Isis gave birth to a little girl. Due to the complications that she had while giving birth, she has started having visions. One of Isis' friends tries to help by taking her to someone that knows more about it. She is kidnapped and flown to another country only to have to find out she is the only living descendant of Cleopatra The Queen of the Nile. By finding out that she is, she is forced to go into hiding and has to protect what is rightfully her's and her daughters. The treasures of Cleopatra and they have to stay the way that they have been all this time. There is evil afoot and she must defeat him to protect what remains of Cleopatra's palace and ruins.

Author : L. Burres
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1497526914

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Cleopatra's Heir by L. Burres Pdf

Athena has a long battle ahead of her. It's not just the battle within her, but one that she would never expect. While building more to Cleopatra's palace, a black mist is unleashed from the ground. Will Athena find a way to protect Cleopatra? It is her blood line that is in jeopardy. Will she save the blood line for generations to come?

Author : Fiona Ross
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-17
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781442252288

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Dining with the Rich and Royal by Fiona Ross Pdf

Dining with the Rich and Royal is a marvelous journey into the gastronomic peccadilloes of the great, the good, and the not-so-good. When the world is at your feet, what is on your table? Dining with the Rich and Royal serves up the glamour of the jet set on a plate, from the silver spoon to the last Kleenex wipe. We follow the food adventures of Hilton, Hefner, and Howard Hughes; the great transatlantic dynasties: Onassis, the Vanderbilts, the Astors and the Rothschilds.Royals watchers and history twitchers will find out the effect of too many fairy feasts on Ludwig of Bavaria; how Hirohito and Ibn Saud tasted East-Meets-West diplomacy. Would you try the cake that killed Rasputin or suck on a suicide sweet with Antony and Cleo? Was it sex or raspberry soufflé that won Mrs. Simpson a king’s heart? It’s all here: a succession of abdications, executions, revolutions, coronations, tales of toothache and posh picnics spiced with the odd military coup or two. Mind your manners now.

Author : Thomas Streissguth
Publisher : Lerner Publications
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2006-12-28
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780822559795

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Queen Cleopatra by Thomas Streissguth Pdf

Tells the story of Cleopatra, who became queen of Egypt in 51 B.C., was determined to keep Egypt independent, and took her own life after being conquered by the Romans.

Author : Colleen McCullough
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781476767659

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Antony and Cleopatra by Colleen McCullough Pdf

In this final novel in the Roman series, McCullough turns her attention to the legendary romance of Antony and Cleopatra.

Author : William Shakespeare,Henry Norman Hudson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : English drama
ISBN : HARVARD:HN3M6G

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The Works of Shakespeare: Henry V. Antony and Cleopatra. Othello by William Shakespeare,Henry Norman Hudson Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : CHI:28491450

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Americanized Encyclopaedia Britannica by Anonim Pdf

Author : Arthur Edward Pearse Brome Weigall
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781465613844

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The Life and Times of Cleopatra Queen of Egypt: A Study in the Origin of the Roman Empire by Arthur Edward Pearse Brome Weigall Pdf

In the following pages it will be observed that, in order not to distract the reader, I have refrained from adding large numbers of notes, references, and discussions, such as are customary in works of this kind. I am aware that by telling a straightforward story in this manner I lay myself open to the suspicions of my fellow-workers, for there is always some tendency to take not absolutely seriously a book which neither prints chapter and verse for its every statement, nor often interrupts the text with erudite arguments. In the case of the subject which is here treated, however, it has seemed to me unnecessary to encumber the pages in this manner, since the sources of my information are all so well known; and I have thus been able to present the book to the reader in a style consonant with a principle of archæological and historical study to which I have always endeavoured to adhere—namely, the avoidance of as many of those attestations of learning as may be discarded without real loss. A friend of mine, an eminent scholar, in discussing with me the scheme of this volume, earnestly exhorted me on the present occasion not to abide by this principle. Remarking that the trouble with my interpretation of history was that I attempted to make the characters live, he urged me at least to justify the manner of their resuscitation in the eyes of the doctors of science by cramming my pages with extracts from my working notes, relevant or otherwise, and by smattering my text with Latin and Greek quotations. I trust, however, that he was speaking in behalf of a very small company, for the sooner this kind of jargon of scholarship is swept into the world’s dust-bin, the better will it be for public education. To my mind a knowledge of the past is so necessary to a happy mental poise that it seems absolutely essential for historical studies to be placed before the general reader in a manner sympathetic to him. “History,” said Emerson, “no longer shall be a dull book. It shall walk incarnate in every just and wise man. You shall not tell me by languages and titles a catalogue of the volumes you have read. You shall make me feel what periods you have lived.” Such has been my attempt in the following pages; and, though I am so conscious of my literary limitations that I doubt my ability to place the reader in touch with past events, I must confess to a sense of gladness that I, at any rate, with almost my whole mind, have lived for a time in the company of the men and women of long ago of whom these pages tell.

Author : Michelle Moran
Publisher : Crown
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307462381

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Cleopatra's Daughter by Michelle Moran Pdf

The incredible untold story of the children of Cleopatra, Egypt’s most powerful and notorious ruler—a novel that “brims over with rich details of Roman life, historical personages, and political turmoil” (Romantic Times)—from the internationally bestselling author of Nefertiti “Fast-paced, intriguing, and beautifully written.”—The Boston Globe The marriage of Marc Antony and Cleopatra is one of the greatest love stories of all time. Feared and hunted by the powers in Rome, the lovers choose to die by their own hands as the triumphant armies of Antony’s rival, Octavian, sweep into Egypt. When their orphaned children are taken in chains to Rome, only two—the ten-year-old twins Selene and Alexander—survive the journey. As they come of age, they are buffeted by the personal ambitions of Octavian’s family and court, by the ever-present threat of slave rebellion, and by the longings deep within their own hearts. Recounted in Selene’s youthful and engaging voice, Michelle Moran introduces a compelling cast of historical characters: Octavia, the emperor Octavian’s kind and compassionate sister, abandoned by Marc Antony for Cleopatra; Livia, Octavian’s bitter and jealous wife; Marcellus, Octavian’s handsome, flirtatious nephew and heir apparent; Tiberius, Livia’s sardonic son and Marcellus’s great rival for power; and Juba, Octavian’s watchful aide, whose honored position at court has far-reaching effects on the lives of the young Egyptian royals. Based on meticulous research, Cleopatra’s Daughter is a fascinating portrait of imperial Rome and of the people and events of this most tumultuous period in human history. Emerging from the shadows of the past, Selene must confront the same forces that destroyed her mother and struggle to meet a different fate.

Author : Arthur E.P. Brome Brome Weigall
Publisher : anboco
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9783736420274

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The Life and Times of Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt ann of the Roman Empire by Arthur E.P. Brome Brome Weigall Pdf

In the following pages it will be observed that, in order not to distract the reader, I have refrained from adding large numbers of notes, references, and discussions, such as are customary in works of this kind. I am aware that by telling a straightforward story in this manner I lay myself open to the suspicions of my fellow-workers, for there is always some tendency to take not absolutely seriously a book which neither prints chapter and verse for its every statement, nor often interrupts the text with erudite arguments. In the case of the subject which is here treated, however, it has seemed to me unnecessary to encumber the pages in this manner, since the sources of my information are all so well known; and I have thus been able to present the book to the reader in a style consonant with a principle of archæological and historical study to which I have always endeavoured to adhere—namely, the avoidance of as many of those attestations of learning as may be discarded without real loss. A friend of mine, an eminent scholar, in discussing with me the scheme of this volume, earnestly exhorted me on the present occasion not to abide by this principle. Remarkingxiv that the trouble with my interpretation of history was that I attempted to make the characters live, he urged me at least to justify the manner of their resuscitation in the eyes of the doctors of science by cramming my pages with extracts from my working notes, relevant or otherwise, and by smattering my text with Latin and Greek quotations. I trust, however, that he was speaking in behalf of a very small company, for the sooner this kind of jargon of scholarship is swept into the world's dust-bin, the better will it be for public education. To my mind a knowledge of the past is so necessary to a happy mental poise that it seems absolutely essential for historical studies to be placed before the general reader in a manner sympathetic to him. "History," said Emerson, "no longer shall be a dull book.

Author : Vicky Alvear Shecter
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780545389372

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Cleopatra's Moon by Vicky Alvear Shecter Pdf

Selene has grown up in a palace on the Nile with her parents, Cleopatra & Mark Antony--the most brilliant, powerful rulers on earth. But the jealous Roman Emperor Octavianus wants Egypt for himself, & when war finally comes, Selene faces the loss of all she's ever loved. Forced to build a new life in Octavianus's household in Rome, she finds herself torn between two young men and two possible destinies--until she reaches out to claim her own.This stunning novel brings to life the personalities & passions of one of the greatest dramas in history, & offers a wonderful new heroine in Selene.

Author : Michelle Moran
Publisher : Crown
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307409133

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Cleopatra's Daughter by Michelle Moran Pdf

From the internationally bestselling author of Nefertiti comes the tumultuous story of Antony and Celopatra's daughter, Selene. The marriage of Marc Antony and Cleopatra is one of the greatest love stories of all time, a tale of unbridled passion with earth-shaking political consequences. When the lovers choose to die by their own hands, their three orphaned children are taken in chains to Rome; only two—the ten-year-old twins Selene and Alexander—survive the journey. Delivered to the household of Octavian’s sister, the siblings cling to each other and to the hope that they will return one day to their rightful place on the throne of Egypt. Recounted in Selene’s youthful and engaging voice, Moran introduces a compelling cast of historical characters: Octavia, the emperor Octavian’s kind and compassionate sister, abandoned by Marc Antony for Cleopatra; Livia, Octavian's bitter and jealous wife; Marcellus, Octavian’s handsome, flirtatious nephew and heir apparent; Tiberius, Livia’s sardonic son and Marcellus’s great rival for power; and Juba, Octavian’s watchful aide, whose honored position at court has far-reaching effects on the lives of the young Egyptian royals. Selene’s narrative is animated by the concerns of a young girl in any time and place—the possibility of finding love, the pull of friendship and family, and the pursuit of her unique interests and talents. And as Selene and Alexander come of age, they are buffeted by the personal ambitions of Octavian’s family and court, by the ever-present threat of slave rebellion, and by the longings and desires deep within their own hearts. Based on meticulous research, Cleopatra’s Daughter is a fascinating portrait of imperial Rome and of the people and events of this glorious and most volatile period in human history. Emerging from the shadows of the past, Selene, a young woman of irresistible charm and preternatural intelligence, will capture your heart.