Of all the beautiful women of history, none has left us such convincing proofs of her charms as Cleopatra, for the tide of Rome's destiny, and, therefore, that of the world, turned aside because of her beauty. Julius Caesar, whose legions trampled the conquered world from Canopus to the Thames, capitulated to her, and Mark Antony threw a fleet, an empire and his own honor to the winds to follow her to his destruction. Disarmed at last before the frigid Octavius, she found her peerless body measured by the cold eye of her captor only for the triumphal procession, and the friendly asp alone spared her Rome's crowning ignominy.

Medie	Bøger Hardcover bog (Bog med hård ryg og stift omslag)
Udgivet	8. februar 2006
ISBN13	9781421803593
Forlag	1st World Library - Literary Society
Antal sider	228
Mål	140 × 216 × 18 mm · 426 g
Sprog	Engelsk
Medvirkende	1st World Library
Medvirkende	1stworld Library

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