{"product_id":"cleopatra-a-life-stacy-schiff","title":"Cleopatra: A Life — Stacy Schiff","description":"\u003cp\u003eSchiff reconstructs Cleopatra from sources that are almost uniformly hostile — Roman, written by men, produced after her defeat. What she finds, working against the grain of the evidence, is a ruler of considerable political intelligence operating in a world that offered women no legitimate framework for authority. She governed Egypt for twenty-one years, spoke nine languages, commanded armies and navies, and negotiated with the two most powerful men of her era. The book is as much about the distortion of historical memory as about the queen herself — about what it takes to reduce a serious political figure to a seductress.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"epoch-endorsement\"\u003eWinner of the \u003cstrong\u003ePEN\/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography\u003c\/strong\u003e and a \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestseller. 'Schiff has written a biography worthy of its subject — precise, brilliant, and wholly alive.' — \u003cem\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Epoch Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53734528581959,"sku":null,"price":16.14,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0967\/9152\/7751\/files\/rn-image_picker_lib_temp_50d51267-be67-48ae-8752-ac0c7a95d2db.jpg?v=1776634382","url":"https:\/\/www.epochbooks.co.uk\/products\/cleopatra-a-life-stacy-schiff","provider":"Epoch Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}