{"id":135826,"date":"2010-01-04T11:16:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T16:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6760875.post-5087496143421716118"},"modified":"2010-01-04T11:18:11","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T16:18:11","slug":"book-review-cleopatra-and-rome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/135826","title":{"rendered":"Book Review:  Cleopatra and Rome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.strategypage.com\/bookreviews\/426.asp\">Strategy Page<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"> Cleopatra and Rome<\/span>, by Diana E. E. Kleiner<\/p>\n<p>Cambridge, Ma.: Harvard Belknap, 2005. Pp. vi, 340. Illus, diagr., notes, biblio., index. $29.95 paper. ISBN:0674032365.<\/p>\n<p>Cleopatra and Rome is essentially a &#8220;life and times&#8221; of the last Ptolemid ruler of Egypt, inter-woven with an exploration of her long-term influence on the art, politics, and culture of her times and the ages that followed, with a look at the Cleopatra of tradition, legend, and literature.<\/p>\n<p>The author, a professor of Classics at Yale, argues that the Egyptian queen&#8217;s conqueror, Octavian, and the Romans of his times consciously copied many political, cultural, and social practices that had characterized her reign, putting an &#8220;indelible mark&#8221; on imperial Rome. <\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Egyptology News Blog, Andie Byrnes<img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/6760875-5087496143421716118?l=egyptology.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strategy Page Cleopatra and Rome, by Diana E. E. Kleiner Cambridge, Ma.: Harvard Belknap, 2005. Pp. vi, 340. Illus, diagr., notes, biblio., index. $29.95 paper. ISBN:0674032365. Cleopatra and Rome is essentially a &#8220;life and times&#8221; of the last Ptolemid ruler of Egypt, inter-woven with an exploration of her long-term influence on the art, politics, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}