A life sifts through the myth to describe the woman who at one time controlled the entire eastern mediterranean coast. Schiff impressively recreates the myth of cleopatra while deconstructing the legend and unveiling its sources a handwritten word, a few coins, sparse firsthand testimony, many secondthirdfourth hand accounts, and plenty of gossip. All content included on our site, such as text, images, digital downloads and other, is the property of its content suppliers and protected by us and international laws. Stacy schiff on cleopatra the last queen of egypt youtube.
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Schiff, born in adams, massachusetts, is a graduate of phillips academy andover preparatory school, and earned her b. Cleopatra was queen of a large, rich, highly sophisticated country for more than 20 years, yet almost everything we know about her comes from a legend created by her most deadly enemy, the roman emperor augustus. Interview with stacy schiff, author of cleopatra sfgate. Cleopatra en espanol by stacy schiff nook book ebook. Michelangelo, tiepolo, and elizabeth taylor put a face to her name. Stacy schiff cleopatra p 148 as dio observed later, democracy sounded very well and good, but its results are seen not to agree at all with its title. Above all else, cleopatra was a shrewd strategist and an ingenio.
Directly challenging 2,000 year old assumptions that were enhanced by the likes of dante, and director joseph mankiewicz, is a tall order for even the most accomplished writer. As author stacy schiff points out, its as if our only information about napoleon. Cleopatras alexandria, in contrast, was a city of dazzling luxury, beauty and culture. Stacy schiffs meticulous research, the depth and deftness of her portrayal, have given us a cleopatra far richer and more satisfying than the myths and fantasies that we have mistaken for true nourishment. As a cultural icon, cleopatra turns out to be an inexhaustible shapeshifter, getting mixed up with eve, the virgin mary, aphrodite, salome, and, most recently, wonder woman. She discusses our sources, and why certain ones are more credible than others unfortunately most sources have. In a masterly return to the classical sources, stacy schiff here boldly separates fact from fiction to rescue the magnetic queen whose death ushered in a new world order. We picture her as elizabeth taylor in the 1960s eponymous flop and think of mark antony as richard burton. The pulitzer prizewinning author stacy schiff attempts to paint a more complete picture in her new book, cleopatra. I remembered little about the famous egyptian ruler from world history class in high school, and i dont think the elizabeth taylor movie counts as a documentary, so schiff s book felt like my.
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