Cleopatra and Antony: Power, Love, and Politics in the Ancient World

On A Stiflingly Hot Day In August, 30 BC, the thirty-nine-year-old queen of Egypt, Cleopatra, took her own life rather than be paraded in chains through Rome by her conqueror, Octavian—the future first emperor, Augustus. A few days earlier, her lover of eleven years, Mark Antony, had himself committed suicide and died in her arms. Oceans of mythology have grown around them, all of which Diana Preston explores in her stirring history of the lives and times of a couple whose names—more than two millennia later—still invoke passion, curiosity, and intrigue.

Preston views the drama and romance of Cleopatra and Antony's personal lives—and Cleopatra's previous lengthy affair with Julius Caesar that linked the might of Egypt with that of Rome—as part of the great military and political struggle that culminated in the full-fledged rise of the Roman Empire. With the keen eye for detail and abundant insight that have won her awards for previous books, Preston sheds new light on a vitally important period in Western history.

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