Cleopatra

Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Hubert Robert and Giovanni Paolo Panini. Alexandria after Actium: the fleet is gone, Antony is drinking, and Cleopatra — forty, brilliant, out of options — tests poisons and negotiates with Octavian's envoy while a young sculptor and his brother are destroyed at the edges of it. Ebers found the medical papyrus that bears hi...