A surly rome is banging on her doors for debt repayments, the kingdom is on the verge of a civil war, and the dying king's powerful advisors seek to discard her like a rag and control the kingdom through her brother.Now, the young regent must confront her adversaries and walk the tightrope over an abyss of treachery and conflict, because one wrong move means ending three thousand years of pharaonic rule and turning up as a corpse in the alexandrian marshes. Inside you will read about...The ptolemaic dynastyCleopatra as queenCleopatra and julius caesarMark antony and cleopatraPropaganda warsThe last pharaoh of egypt: cleopatra's suicideAnd much more The truth is that the queen was highly despised by the romans, and they were the ones that depicted her as a power-hungry ruler of egypt. Most historians who wrote about her were heavily influenced by the romans, who had managed to erase her side of the story. Most of her fingerprints, too, were gone, all lost to history, so it can be hard for readers who are curious about the egyptian queen to actually find an easy-to-read guide that tells her story.
