Cleopatra stood at one of the most dangerous intersections in history; that of women and power. Clever women, Euripides had warned hundreds of years earlier, were dangerous.
Stacy SchiffI'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.
Stacy SchiffA rich, multi-dimensional tour of Naples, most brilliant, battered, and bewildering of cities, here fixed to the page with wit and รฉlan. Splendid.
Stacy SchiffI checked to see if thereโd been a really good book published in the last few decades. Then I started with what Cleopatra would have read, asking myself, โWhat can we know about her education?โ It turns out to be a very great deal, and bizarrely, no one had written about that before.
Stacy Schiff