Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt - Hardcover

Times Higher Education Supplement
“A very readable account of the life of Cleopatra VII, and one that goes some way to redress the way in which she is often viewed. It also provides intriguing insights into life and society in the Egypt of the Ptolemies and the position of Egypt in the world-system of its time.”

Sunday Telegraph
“Tyldesley’s strength has always been her storytelling, and here she is on top form. The Ptolemaic court was an in-bred and volatile place where assassination of family rivals was commonplace, and she brings out well the effect of the entry of Rome into this bewildering madhouse.... Tyldesley takes this terrific story on in fine style...a gripping narrative.”

The Mail on Sunday
“One of the many merits of this sympathetic biography is that [Tyldesley] is able to place Cleopatra securely in Egyptian culture and history.”

Los Angeles Daily News
“Fascinating and irresistible.”

Tucson Citizen
“This is a multilayered biography of one of the most interesting historical figures ever. Tyldesley presents the great queen in such a way that she almost leaps from the printed page.”

Choice
“Tyldesley seeks to redress Cleopatra’s seductress image by viewing her within the larger context of Egypt’s dynastic affairs and cultural history.... The book’s final chapter describes how the Roman propaganda machine stripped the intelligent, educated queen of her political validity and fashioned her posthumous identity as an immoral, unnatural woman and (alternatively) tragic heroine.”

The Historian
“In her retelling of Cleopatra’s story, [Tyldesley] draws on established archaeological and classical sources to advance a new reading of this largely misunderstood figure.”