Good day everyone I’m Elena, thanks to be here on Alessandro III di Macedonia: blog about Alexander the Great and Hellenism. November, sweet November, will certainly be Cleopatra’s month as regards the new releases of the books, in fact it will also be released:
Cleopatra. Her History, Her Myth
by Francine Prose
Publisher: Yale University Press
On: Tuesday, 8 Nov 2022
A feminist reinterpretation of the myths surrounding Cleopatra casts new light on the Egyptian queen and her legacy
The siren passionately in love with Mark Antony, the seductress who allegedly rolled out of a carpet she had herself smuggled in to see Caesar, Cleopatra is a figure shrouded in myth. Beyond the legends immortalized by Plutarch, Shakespeare, George Bernard Shaw, and others, there are no journals or letters written by Cleopatra herself. All we have to tell her story are words written by others.
What has it meant for our understanding of Cleopatra to have had her story told by writers who had a political agenda, authors who distrusted her motives, and historians who believed she was a liar? Francine Prose delves into ancient Greek and Roman literary sources, as well as modern representations of Cleopatra in art, theater, and film. She challenges the common narratives driven by orientalism and misogyny and offers a new interpretation of Cleopatra’s history from the lens of our own era.
Francine Prose is the author of numerous books, including Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932 and Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife. A Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard College, she lives in New York.
Hardcover (also available in eBook)
ISBN: 978-0300256673
208 Pages, 5.50 x 8.50 in, 1 map
$ 26.00
Ancient Lives unfolds the stories of thinkers, writers, kings, queens, conquerors, and politicians from all parts of the ancient world. Readers will come to know these figures in fully human dimensions, complete with foibles and flaws, and will see that the issues they faced—political conflicts, constraints based in gender or race, tensions between the private and public self—have changed very little over the course of millennia.
This is a must read and I can’t wait to have it! If you want to save a reminder to your Google Calendar check THIS LINK out. I hope to be of help and for today I greet you but tomorrow I will have another future release to announce!
Have a good day and thank you for reading,
Alessandro III di Macedonia 
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