Book Analysis: Cleopatra's Life by Stacy Schiff
A Critical Analysis of
CLEOPATRA LIFE: STACY SCHIFF
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ANTHONY EVERITT: THE LIFE OF ROME’S FIRST EMPEROR AUGUSTUS
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ANDREA OVERFIELD: THE HUMAN RECORD SOURCES OF GLOBAL HISTORY, VOLUME1
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Susana E Andrade
Professor Lorenz
History 4A, Sec. 1985
May 2, 2013
1. Based on your selected book, very briefly describe the scope and focus of your historian work, then, state the historian’s thesis/core argument and sub-thesis.
Stacy Schiff in Cleopatra: A life present a well detailed historical past of Cleopatra the last of Egyptian queens. She married twice to a brother. She was treated brutal during the Civil war. Cleopatra only had been with two mean, Caesar and Anthony, and had a kid with Caesar according with Schiff. However she was the wealthiest ruler in the Mediterranean. In addition, Cleopatra has gone down because other funders put words in her mouth according to Schiff. Stacy Schiff argues that Cleopatra was a shrewd, strategist and an ingenious negotiator, wealthy, and very beautiful including with influential position at the age. Furthermore, Cleopatra married two romans Caesar and Anthony they made her the most influential well known women at the age. In addition, Cleopatra was one of the most famous women to have lived and ruled Egypt for twenty-two years. And die at the age of thirty-nine and many people have spoken about her during at the time and still an afterlife in history and recognized and one of the most beautiful Egyptian of the time. Although Cleopatra had a child with Caesar and--after his murder--three more with his protégé. Cleopatra had a child with Caesar and--after his murder--three more with his protégé. Though her life spanned fewer than forty years, it reshaped the contours of the ancient world. She was married twice, each time to a brother. She waged a brutal civil war against the first when both were teenagers. As Schiff mentioned on her book that Cleopatra has gone down on the history but still
CLEOPATRA LIFE: STACY SCHIFF
&
ANTHONY EVERITT: THE LIFE OF ROME’S FIRST EMPEROR AUGUSTUS
&
ANDREA OVERFIELD: THE HUMAN RECORD SOURCES OF GLOBAL HISTORY, VOLUME1
By
Susana E Andrade
Professor Lorenz
History 4A, Sec. 1985
May 2, 2013
1. Based on your selected book, very briefly describe the scope and focus of your historian work, then, state the historian’s thesis/core argument and sub-thesis.
Stacy Schiff in Cleopatra: A life present a well detailed historical past of Cleopatra the last of Egyptian queens. She married twice to a brother. She was treated brutal during the Civil war. Cleopatra only had been with two mean, Caesar and Anthony, and had a kid with Caesar according with Schiff. However she was the wealthiest ruler in the Mediterranean. In addition, Cleopatra has gone down because other funders put words in her mouth according to Schiff. Stacy Schiff argues that Cleopatra was a shrewd, strategist and an ingenious negotiator, wealthy, and very beautiful including with influential position at the age. Furthermore, Cleopatra married two romans Caesar and Anthony they made her the most influential well known women at the age. In addition, Cleopatra was one of the most famous women to have lived and ruled Egypt for twenty-two years. And die at the age of thirty-nine and many people have spoken about her during at the time and still an afterlife in history and recognized and one of the most beautiful Egyptian of the time. Although Cleopatra had a child with Caesar and--after his murder--three more with his protégé. Cleopatra had a child with Caesar and--after his murder--three more with his protégé. Though her life spanned fewer than forty years, it reshaped the contours of the ancient world. She was married twice, each time to a brother. She waged a brutal civil war against the first when both were teenagers. As Schiff mentioned on her book that Cleopatra has gone down on the history but still
Bibliography: Schiff, Stacy. Clepatra A Life. 1st. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2010. 368. Print Everitt, Anthony. Augustus: The Life of Rome 's First Emperor. 2007 Random House Trade Paperback Ed. United Kingdom: The Random House, Inc., 2006. 377. Print. Andrea, Alfred J,.Overfield, James H,. The Humans Record: Source of Global History. Seventh Ed. Boston, MA. 2012, 2009 Wadsworth, Cengage Learning