The bestselling author and historian Lisa Hilton picks up the mythical 'City of Ladies' where the medieval writer Christine de Pisan left off, continuing a conversation about gender and greatness that began more than six hundred years ago.
Cleopatra was Egypt's last and most famous queen. In an age of war and bloodshed, not only did she use her intelligence, her beauty and her charm to defent her beloved country, but also, the two most powerful men of the time fell in love with her. First as a young woman, she dazzled the great Caesar ...
