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Stanley, Diane.

Summary: Cleopatra was not the renowned beauty of legend-her strength lay in her intelligence, courage, and charm, and she would need all three in her short and perilous reign. She became Queen of Egypt at eighteen and by twenty had been driven from her throne. But she raided an army and won the support of the great Julius Caesar, who helped her return to rule.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow Junior Books 1994

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CLE

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB CLEOPATRA STA

Preston, Diana

Summary: The story of the world's best-remembered celebrity couple, set against the political backdrop of their time. In 30 BCE, the 39-year-old queen of Egypt, Cleopatra, took her own life rather than be paraded in chains through Rome by her conqueror, the future first emperor Augustus. A few days earlier, her lover of eleven years, Mark Antony, had himself committed suicide. Historian Diana Preston...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Walker Pub. Co. 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 932.021092 PRE

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