{"product_id":"9780099826002-secondhand-cleopatra-histories-dreams-and-distortions","title":"Cleopatra: Histories, Dreams and Distortions","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the 2000 years since Cleopatra's death she has been recreated over and over again, each time in a form that fits the prejudices and fantasies of the age that produced it. To Chaucer she was the model of a good wife, while to Cecil B.De Mille she was \"the wickedest woman in all history\"; to the Arabic historian Al-Masudi she was a scholar and a sage; to George Bernard Shaw an emotionally retarded sex-kitten. These fantastic Cleopatras can be read as mirror-images of the culture that produced them. This book is about them, and also about politics - sexual, racial and constitutional - and about morality, neurosis and desire. The author is a journalist and critic who won the 1980 Catherine Pakenham Award as a feature writer with \"Vogue\".\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48993081721051,"sku":"9780099826002-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/9780099826002-us-300.jpg?v=1784672793","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9780099826002-secondhand-cleopatra-histories-dreams-and-distortions","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}