Cleopatra and Antony

"[Preston's] research is careful and deep; her prose is lively and graceful; her sympathy for her central character is strong but wholly without sentimentality; her depiction of the worlds in which Cleopatra lived is detailed, textured and evocative...It's a very good book." --"Washington Post

"In her stirring history "Cleopatra and Antony," Diana Preston explores the lives and times of a couple whose names, more than two millennia later, still envoke passion, curiosity, and intrigue. Preston views Cleopatra and Antony's eleven-year romance as an integral part of the great military, political, and ideological struggle culminating in the full-fledged rise of the Roman Empire, joined east and west. With the keen eye for detail and storytelling skill that have won awards for her previous books, Diana Preston sheds new light on a vitally important period in Western history.