- Florence
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Hometown
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a sucker for lost worlds. I was nostalgic even as a child. I was happiest in my hometown library in Adams, Mass., where nothing seemed to change.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have three children, each of whom is having an idyllic childhood, probably because I have been at the office the entire time.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women enjoyed rights in Egypt they would not again enjoy for more than 2,000 years. They owned ships, ran vineyards, filed lawsuits, practiced medicine. Their husbands supported them after divorce. Their power was unprecedented.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
For thousands of years, men have written history, so it seems to me that most of what we've read is from the male point of view.
- Falling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wouldn't dare to speculate as to Cleopatra's falling in love. Her relationships are too convenient for that.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're talking about, essentially, the Roman historians, who wrote Cleopatra into the story mostly so that they could talk about the rise of Rome. And that is one of the problems, of course, in recounting her life. She's only ever apparent to us when there is a Roman in the room, or when her story intersects with the rise of Rome.
- Fore
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- Nov 07, 2020
How does a woman in authority convey that authority? Is it possible for a woman to rule without sounding shrill? Is it possible for a woman to manage without manipulating? All of these things seem to me to be very much at the fore today, and were no less the case 2,000 years ago.
- Able
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- Nov 07, 2020
From every ancient source, we have testimony to Cleopatra's irresistible charm, as Plutarch has it, to her ability to speak many languages including, as he puts it, the language of flattery and essentially, to be able to turn people to her will - really a great political genius, in that respect.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
What we know about Cleopatra's looks is based purely on her coin portraits. Engraving was imperfect, and that when you are a ruler and you ask for a coin to be engraved with your likeness on it, you are probably trying to project a certain air of authority.
- Grow Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one sits on the stoop when she's a kid and thinks, 'I want to be a biographer when I grow up.'
- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Insofar as there is an anxiety of influence for a biographer, it may be that each new book is undertaken in reaction to the previous book.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
I checked to see if there'd been a really good book published in the last few decades. Then I started with what Cleopatra would have read, asking myself, 'What can we know about her education?' It turns out to be a very great deal, and bizarrely, no one had written about that before.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I once interviewed David Herbert Donald, the Lincoln historian, and we talked about how one deals with the secondary sources and the previous biographies. He said something which kept coming back to me as I worked on Cleopatra, which was: 'There's no further new material; there are only new questions.'
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Here you have an incredibly ambitious, accomplished woman who comes up against some of the same problems that women in power come up against today. Cleopatra plays an oddly pivotal role in world history as well; in her lifetime, Alexandria is the center of the universe, Rome is still a backwater.
- Perfect
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- Nov 07, 2020