I should also mention that the diary makes note of Cleopatra's knowledge in Greek mythology due to the Ptolemies using Greek as their language.
Os temas, pelo entanto, podem vir a variar por entendimento usando a cultura local. Cá no Brasil podemos encontrar muitas usando slots machines usando o tema do carnaval, por exemplo.
As always, to end this review, let’s take a look at some excerpts from this book that will make you see that history wasn’t always as sexy as it’s sometimes portrayed to be.
It was during this period that Antony’s military prowess began to falter, causing him to lose thousands of men. Of course, instead of the blame being placed on Antony’s rash, bull-headed decisions, Plutarch would blame the failures on Cleopatra:
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Her first rejection letter at age ten was for a poem she wrote in class when she was supposed to be doing a math assignment. She's had a myriad of odd jobs: telephone operator, lifeguard, camp counselor, reporter, book reviewer & columnist for the LA Times, and finally author.
The history is terrible; the author has a cast of Roman and Greek "Who's Who" show up to introduce themselves to Cleopatra in her childhood, regardless of how unlikely each meeting is. It feels like the author would have preferred to be writing a story about Cleopatra the woman and chafed at writing one instead about Cleopatra the girl, hence the constant influx of characters who would later be integral in the reign of Cleopatra. This also bears out in Cleopatra's tone and writing - she is constantly pointing out how calm, queenly, educated, intelligent, etc.
These parallel works were written a century after the death of Cleopatra. Although their focus is on events in the southern Levant, this was an area of intense interest on the part of Cleopatra, since she and Herod the Great were cautious allies and often rivals.
This is not a bad book—in fact I enjoyed it quite a bit when I was younger and read it often—but this time I was just a bit bored and decided to quit rather than push through and get into another reading slump.
So it’s not at all unlikely that long before Cleopatra was born, her Greek heritage had become mixed with other strains. And since the identity of her own grandmother is unknown, it is foolish to think that we’re sure of her racial identity.
Later, in website 1905, Charles Fey created a machine called "Liberty Bell" which had a tool that made the prize payments directly to the winner.
She had word sent to Antony that she had killed herself, knowing that he would soon follow. She was right. According to Plutarch, when Antony was told of his partner’s death, he uttered the immortal words:
While her father is in hiding after attempts on his life, twelve-year-old Cleopatra records in her diary how she fears for her own safety and hopes to survive to become Queen of Egypt some day Notes