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Cleopatra, Monkeys & Fish, and Selected to Live

Three more book reviews …

Hovering in the middle of the New York Times Bestsellers List is Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff. I was hesitant to read this book because Cleopatra isn’t exactly an unstudied personality. More has probably been written about her than any woman of the ancient world. But the reviews were so good that I gave it a try. I’m glad I did. Schiff has sorted through a lot of the misinformation about Cleopatra, whose history was mostly written by her detractors. One of the interesting threads of the book is how the cultural and gender …