Cleopatra and Antony: Power, Love, and Politics in the Ancient World
10 best books like Cleopatra and Antony: Power, Love, and Politics in the Ancient World (Diana Preston): The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Marie Antoinette: The Journey, iCon: Steve Jobs, the Greatest Second Act in the History of Business, Madame de Pompadour: Mistress of France, Caesars' Wives: The Women Who Shaped the History of Rome, Antony and Cleopatra, Caligula: A Biography, Chronicle of the Roman Republic: The Rulers of Ancient Rome from Romulus to Augustus, Cleopatra: A Biography, The Ruin of the Roman Empire: A New History
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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Through a life of passion and struggle, Malcolm X became one of the most influential figures of the 20th Century. In this riveting account, he tells of his journey from a prison cell to Mecca, describing his transition from hoodlum to Muslim minister....
Marie Antoinette: The Journey
| Author | Antonia Fraser |
| ISBN | 0307277747 |
Brilliantly written, a work of impeccable scholarship. An utterly riveting and intensely moving book by one of our finest biographers.
Never before has the life of Marie Antoinette been told so intimately and with such authority as in Antonia Fraser's newest work, Marie Antoinette: The...
iCon: Steve Jobs, the Greatest Second Act in the History of Business
| Author | Jeffrey S. Young |
| ISBN | 0471787841 |
iCon takes a look at the most astounding figure in a business era noted for its mavericks, oddballs, and iconoclasts. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Jeffrey Young and William Simon provide new perspectives on the legendary creation of Apple, detail Jobs’s meteoric rise, and the devastating...
| Author | Christine Pevitt |
| ISBN | 0802140351 |
This biography of the legendary mistress of King Louis XV offers dramatic insight into the life of one of the most enchanting, powerful, and feared women to grace the world's stage. Groomed from an early age to assume the role of a rich man's mistress, Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson underwent several transformations...
| Author | Annelise Freisenbruch |
| ISBN | 1416583033 |
In scandals and power struggles obscured by time and legend, the wives, mistresses, mothers, sisters, and daughters of the Caesars have been popularly characterized as heartless murderers, shameless adulteresses, and conniving politicians in the high dramas of the Roman court. Yet little has...
| Author | Adrian Goldsworthy |
| ISBN | 0297845675 |
The love affair between Antony and Cleopatra is one of the most famous stories from the ancient world, and has been depicted in countless novels, plays and films. As one of the three men in control of the Roman Empire, Antony was perhaps the most powerful man of his day; while Cleopatra, who had already...
| Author | Aloys Winterling |
| ISBN | 0520248953 |
"Caligula enjoys a reputation as one of the most brutal and tyrannical Roman emperors. In this accessible narrative of Caligula's life, Winterling uses his deep knowledge of Roman society and the imperial court to investigate why contemporaries chose to assassinate Caligula's reputation...
| Author | Philip Matyszak |
| ISBN | 0500051216 |
The Roman Republic was one of the most civilized societies in the ancient world, ruled by elected officials whose power was checked by a constitution so well crafted that it inspired the founding fathers of the United States of America. Here Philip Matyszak describes fifty-seven of the foremost Romans...
| Author | Michael Grant |
| ISBN | 0785818286 |
I am not "currently reading" this. I read it a long time ago and want to reread.
I have read so many books on Cleopatra and this is one of the best. (Though "I Cleopatra" still ranks as my favorite"). I love the vivid descriptions of Egypt. I have read so many books on Cleopatra that after awhile some...
| Author | James J. O'Donnell |
| ISBN | 0060787376 |
This is not exactly a Fall of the Roman Empire book in the usual sense - it actually is concerned with the hundred years or so after the traditional date of 476 A.D. (and the deposition of Romulus Augustulus, traditionally seen as the "last" Roman emperor). In particular, the book examines and criticizes...
| Author | Duane W. Roller |
| ISBN | 0195365534 |
Few personalities from classical antiquity are more famous--yet more poorly understood--than Cleopatra VII, queen of Egypt. In this major biography, Duane Roller reveals that Cleopatra was in fact a learned and visionary leader whose overarching goal was always the preservation of her dynasty...
