cleopatra last queen of egypt by joyce tyldesley

REVIEW: of Cleopatra (Susan Stephens, CommonKnowledge) REVIEW: of Cleopatra (Randy Dotinga, CS Monitor) REVIEW: of Cleopatra (Louisa Thomas, Daily Beast) Nicholson, Times Higher Education Supplement) REVIEW: of Cleopatra : Last Queen of Egypt by Joyce Tyldesley (Mary Beard, NY Review of Books) ARCHIVES: Joyce Tyldesley (History Today) REVIEW: of Antony and Cleopatra by Adrian Goldsworthy (Joyce Tyldesley, History Today) REVIEW: of Cleopatra: A Biography (Women in Antiquity) by Duane W. REVIEW: of American Egyptologist: The Life of James Henry Breasted and the Creation of His Oriental Institute by Jeffrey Abt (Joyce Tyldesley, History Today) REVIEW: of Dancing For Hathor: Women in Ancient Egypt by Carolyn Graves-Brown (Joyce Tyldesley, History Today) REVIEW ESSAY: Tomb readers (Joyce Tyldesley, Financial Times) Published in Magazine Articles on Egyptological. INTERVIEW: Egyptologically Speaking: An Interview with Joyce Tyldesley (Interview by Barbara O’Neill.

(Helen Tither, 4/20/10, Manchester Evening News) INTERVIEW: Cleopatra is a beauty myth : SHE was one of the most famously beautiful women in the world but a new book by a Manchester academic says Cleopatra may not have been beautiful at all. AUDIO INTERVIEW: The Age of Cleopatra (Tom Ashbrook, 6/16/10, On Point) INTERVIEW: The Real Cleopatra with Joyce Tyldesley (BBC manchester, 1/25/08) AUDIO INTERVIEW: with Joyce Tyldesley (Marshall Poe, New Book in Classics) PUBLISHER'S SITE: Joyce Tyldesley (Simon & Schuster) FACULTY PAGE: Dr Joyce Tyldesley (BA, DPhil) (University of Manchester)

GOOGLE BOOK: Cleopatra : Last Queen of Egypt by Joyce Tyndesley She has a good topic to write about and she tells Cleopatra's story well. Perhaps most importantly, as befits a popular, rather than a scholarly, study, she writes in fluid and straightforward prose. While she more or less demolishes such notions as Cleopatra being black, rolling out of a carpet the first time she met Caesar, committing suicide by asp, etc., she marshals the facts so relentlessly that it is nigh impossible to quarrel with her conclusions. That said, Ms Tyldesley's command of the original sources is awesome and her fair-handedness in treating the stories that surround Cleopatra is a model for historians. While the book is brief-217 pages-it could really be cut almost in half, to the length of one of those Penguin Lives that have come out in recent years. And while that discussion is interesting enough, it does make for a loss of focus. In separating out what we can know with some certainty from the myths and legends that have been handed down about one of the most famous women in history, the author winnows out so much that she eventually has to fill out the book with much discourse about the sociology and general history of Egypt. The strength of Joyce Tyldesley's definitive biography of Cleopatra is also the source of its one weakness.

Cleopatra last queen of egypt by joyce tyldesley