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"This book styles itself as Cleopara's personal diary with stunning historical detail based on an extensive and well researched bibliography. Historical characters such as Julius Caesar and Marcus Antonius come to life. "
Matthew G. Michaels, Resident Scholar
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" Cleopatra becomes the queen of Egypt when she is seventeen, thanks to the intervention of Gaius Julius Caesar, who she meets by disguising herself inside a rug. Caesar becomes her lover and tarries long in Egypt with her, visiting monuments and the pyramids in Memphis. During this time, she realizes he has epileptic seizures, and is also impregnated by him. He marries her in Egypt and returns to Rome.
Both Rome and Egypt have many problems, and the two rulers are both respectively busy with tasks of managing their empires. Cleopatra gives birth to a son, and names him Ptolemy Caesar, which causes much controversy for her, since Rome regards her as Caesar's whore. Caesar nonetheless claims the child for his own. Unfortunately he is assassinated by the Roman Senate and never gets to see his son grow up.
After Caesar's death, Cleopatra falls in love with Marcus Antonius, and describes in detail the differences between the two men; their bodies, their habits, their strengths and weaknesses. Together they try to exist in a world that does not want to see them together."
Jennifer Hobbs, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Tone of book?
- upbeat
Time/era of story
- ancient Egypt
Life of a profession:
- prince/nobleman/king/queen
Is this an adult or child's book?
- Adult or Young Adult Book
Job/Profession/Status story
Yes
Main Character
Gender
- Female
Profession/status:
- politician/elected ruler
- dictator
Age:
- 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Arab
- Greek
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Very much smarter than other characters
Physique
- average physique
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
- Female
Age:
- a kid
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- Prince/Nobleman/King
- dictator
Eccentric/Smart/Dumb:
Yes
Eccentric:
- dumb
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- a little/some
- throughout most of the book.
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
- mean, arrogant
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Dumb
- Genius
Physique
- average physique
- quite fatty
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 9 ()
Desert?
Yes
City?
Yes
City:
- dangerous
Misc setting
- fancy mansion
- fort/military installation
Style
Person
- mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately detailed references to deaths
Sex in book?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- descript of kissing
- touching of anatomy
- licking
- impregnation/reproduction
- descript. of nude males (the big P)
Unusual Style:
- a lot of play on words
- a lot of flashback and forwards
- a lot of stream of consciousness
- written like a journal/diary/letters
Amount of dialog
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
- significantly more descript than dialog
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