'Cleopatra'

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Book review: 'Cleopatra' by Stacy Schiff

The biography portrays the Egyptian ruler as a shrewd political strategist who used her affairs to further her own power, as well as one of the most famous celebrities of her day.

Little, Brown: 370 pp., $29.99

You think 21st century culture is celebrity-obsessed? Try Mediterranean society at the dawn of the first millennium, when politics were entirely personal, and rulers' romantic entanglements could be as important as the battles they won. Who needed movie stars, when the gargantuan appetites of the rich and famous shaped empires, not Hollywood budgets, and their out-of-wedlock offspring were displayed in triumphal parades, not tabloid magazine photos?


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