Cleopatra

This biography reconstructs Cleopatra VII as a Macedonian-Egyptian ruler operating in the final crisis of the Roman Republic. Fraser follows her struggle to preserve Ptolemaic power, her alliances with Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, and the propaganda that helped turn her into a symbol of seduction and eastern danger. The book separates the political queen from the later legend, placing Cleopatra’s decisions within dynastic survival, Roman intervention, civil war and the collapse of independent Egypt.