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In her own lifetime and in the 2000 years since her death, the image of Cleopatra has been repeatedly reinvented, each time in a form that fits the prejudices and fantasies of the age that produced it. This book gives an account of the way in which different generations have viewed Cleopatra.'In this shimmering study Lucy Hughes-Hallett shows how Cleopatra's image was constantly amended by prevailing female fashions, political morality, sexual neuroses.'CLEOPATRA is brilliant and wily... a book about fabrication, persuasion. Even in Cleopatra's own lifetime the legends of the monstrous yet enticing female ruler were beginning to accumulate. But we all love Cleopatra.' - Observer'This is a gripping book. Miss Hughes-Hallett is magnificently scholarly, yet she writes with ease and fluency... A fascinating account of the way in which succeeding generations have seen Cleopatra; as virtuous suicide, inefficient housewife, exuberant lover, professional courtesan, scheming manipulator, femme fatale, incarnation of Isis and bimbo.' - The Economist… (más)
The author states (pg 295) that "I have not, in this book, attempted to strip away illusions and present Cleopatra plane. I cannot do it. I do not know her. I, like all the other writers whose works I have dissected, know only her depictions and descriptions, masks made by others in her image. Those representations, and their makers, have been my study."
So this is not a history of Cleopatra, or a biography of her either. I would call it more of a cultural history; the cultural history and significance of her story. Since the "real" Cleopatra is for all intents and purposes "unknowable", as her story has been distorted through the lens of time, and culture, this is a look at those multiple histories mean, to the audience they were intended for, and what we can gleen from them today.
Cleopatra is presented as many different women, depending again on the time of the writing, and the bias of the writer, and the bias of the intended audience. Those multiply Cleopatras include:
The Sucide The Lover The Woman The Queen The Foreigner The Killer The Child
All of those Cleopatras are discussed and disected in this book
An intersting read, not quite what I was expecting, but that does not distract from my enjoyment of the book.
I think the real Cleopatra can be found in this book, you will just have to work at finding her. ( )
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
In memory of Philip Lloyd-Bostock, 1946-86
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Introduction: She is 'the wickedest woman in history'; she is a pattern of female virtue.
I, There was once an Egyptian queen called Cleopatra.
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Those who envisage her with minds cleared of sexual anxiety and racial arrogance, those who (unlike Baudelaire) can contemplate their own hearts and bodies without disgust, those who can lay aside a yearning for the ease and clarity of a moral sphere in which one side is always right and the other always wrong, may see her beauty, and hear her tolerant laughter.
In her own lifetime and in the 2000 years since her death, the image of Cleopatra has been repeatedly reinvented, each time in a form that fits the prejudices and fantasies of the age that produced it. This book gives an account of the way in which different generations have viewed Cleopatra.'In this shimmering study Lucy Hughes-Hallett shows how Cleopatra's image was constantly amended by prevailing female fashions, political morality, sexual neuroses.'CLEOPATRA is brilliant and wily... a book about fabrication, persuasion. Even in Cleopatra's own lifetime the legends of the monstrous yet enticing female ruler were beginning to accumulate. But we all love Cleopatra.' - Observer'This is a gripping book. Miss Hughes-Hallett is magnificently scholarly, yet she writes with ease and fluency... A fascinating account of the way in which succeeding generations have seen Cleopatra; as virtuous suicide, inefficient housewife, exuberant lover, professional courtesan, scheming manipulator, femme fatale, incarnation of Isis and bimbo.' - The Economist
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So this is not a history of Cleopatra, or a biography of her either. I would call it more of a cultural history; the cultural history and significance of her story. Since the "real" Cleopatra is for all intents and purposes "unknowable", as her story has been distorted through the lens of time, and culture, this is a look at those multiple histories mean, to the audience they were intended for, and what we can gleen from them today.
Cleopatra is presented as many different women, depending again on the time of the writing, and the bias of the writer, and the bias of the intended audience. Those multiply Cleopatras include:
The Sucide
The Lover
The Woman
The Queen
The Foreigner
The Killer
The Child
All of those Cleopatras are discussed and disected in this book
An intersting read, not quite what I was expecting, but that does not distract from my enjoyment of the book.
I think the real Cleopatra can be found in this book, you will just have to work at finding her. (