About the Author

Patricia Southern is an acknowledged expert on ancient Egypt and ancient Rome and the author of four other biographies, Mark Antony, Augustus, Cleopatra, and Julius Caesar, all published by Tempus. She lives in Manchester

Reviews

Her style is delightfully approachable: lean and lucid, witty and pacy. --Antiquity on Casear

In the absence of Cleopatra's memoirs, Southern's commendably balanced biography will do very well. --Sunday Telegraph on Cleopatra