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"[Preston's] research is careful and deep; her prose is lively and graceful; her sympathy for her central character is strong but wholly without sentimentality; her depiction of the worlds in which Cleopatra lived is detailed, textured and evocative...It's a very good book." Washington PostIn her stirring historyCleopatra and Antony, Diana Preston explores the lives and times of a couple whose names, more than two millennia later, still envoke passion, curiosity, and intrigue. Preston views Cleopatra and Antony's eleven-year romance as an integral part of the great military, political, and ideological struggle culminating in the full-fledged rise of the Roman Empire, joined east and west. With the keen eye for detail and storytelling skill that have won awards for her previous books, Diana Preston sheds new light on a vitally important period in Western history.

Diana Preston is an Oxford-trained historian and the author of Before the Fallout: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima, which won the 2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology, Lusitania: An Epic Tragedy, and The Boxer Rebellion. With her husband, Michael Preston, she has coauthored A Pirate of Exquisite Mind and Taj Mahal.

Map	p. x
Prologue	p. 1
Dynasty of Eagles	p. 9
Keeping It in the Family	p. 11
Siblings and Sibylline Prophecies	p. 20
Romulus' Cesspit	p. 31
The Race for Glory	p. 33
"Odi et Amo"	p. 44
Crossing the Rubicon	p. 55
Queen of Egypt, Mistress of Rome	p. 63
Like a Virgin	p. 65
The Alexandrian War	p. 80
"Veni, Vidi, Vici"	p. 92
"Slave of the Times"	p. 101
The Ides of March	p. 110
Isis Alone	p. 119
"Flight of the Queen"	p. 121
Ruler of the East	p. 139
Taming Heracles	p. 155
Mighty Aphrodite	p. 157
"Give It to Fulvia"	p. 166
Single Mother	p. 180
"The Awful Calamity"	p. 189
Gods of the East	p. 201
Sun and Moon	p. 203
"Theatrical, Overdone and Anti-Roman"	p. 216
"A Woman of Egypt"	p. 229
The Battle of Actium	p. 243
After Actium	p. 256
Death on the Nile	p. 267
"Too Many Caesars Is Not a Good Thing"	p. 278
Postscript: "This Pair So Famous"	p. 288
Acknowledgments	p. 295
Appendix: Putting a Face to a Famous Name	p. 297
Notes and Sources	p. 301
Bibliography	p. 315
Picture Credits	p. 319
Who Was Who in the First Century BC	p. 321
Index	p. 325
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