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The book received mostly positive reviews from critics, with particular praise for tackling myths about Cleopatra [2] and addressing the sexualization of female rulers. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] A Publishers Weekly review described it as a lucid and persuasive reinterpretation."
The book also delves into Cleopatra's education, her role as a mother, and her cultural and religious beliefs. [2] [3] Throughout the book, Schiff challenges the common misconceptions about Cleopatra as a seductress and manipulator, instead portraying her as a politically astute leader who was deeply invested in the welfare of her people.
De Mulieribus Claris or De Claris Mulieribus (Latin for "Concerning Famous Women") is a collection of biographies of historical and mythological women by the Florentine author Giovanni Boccaccio, composed in Latin prose in 1361–1362.
The story follows Cleopatra VII, from her early life under the rule of her father Ptolemy XII Auletes, to her eventual suicide.When Cleopatra is a young girl, Ptolemy is overthrown by his two elder daughters, Cleopatra VI and Berenice, and requires the help of Rome to save his throne, increasing his country's debt.
Cleopatra was a foundational figure in alchemy, contemporary with or even pre-dating Zosimos of Panopolis. Michael Maier, author of Atalanta Fugiens (1618), names her as one of the four women who knew how to make the philosopher's stone, along with Maria the Jewess, Medera, and Paphnutia. [6]
Cleopatra, daughter of Boreas (North wind) and the Athenian princess, Oreithyia. She was the first wife of Phineus by whom he had a pair of sons, named either Plexippus and Pandion, [5] or Gerymbas and Aspondus, [6] or Polydector and Polydorus, [7] or Parthenius and Crambis. [8] [9] Cleopatra Alcyone, wife of Meleager. [10]
Haley has published and presented widely on Cleopatra, Black Feminist Pedagogy, and the impact of a classical education on African-American women. Recent examples of her work include: "When I Enter: Disrupting the White, Heteronormative Narrative of Librarianship". Co-authored with Caitlin Pollock.
The Royal Diaries is a series of 20 books published by Scholastic Press from 1999 to 2005. In each of the books, a fictional diary of a real female figure of royalty as a child throughout world history was written by the author. The Royal Diaries was a spin-off of Scholastic's popular Dear America series.