Cleopatra: A Life

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CLEOPATRA:
A LifeBy Stacy Schiff384 pp. Little, Brown and Company
Reviewed by Jane Woodward Elioseff

Cleopatra: A Life is so full of portraits and battles, double-crosses and assassinations, that it is difficult to give a sense of the narrative in a few paragraphs.

Stacy Schiff writes that Cleopatra VII (69-30 BC) was the last