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Life and Times of Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt
Life and Times of Cleopatra Queen of Egypt Author:Arthur Weigall 1924. A study in the origin of the Roman Empire. As we read the deeds of the Queen of Egypt, we must doff our modern conception of right and wrong; and, as we pace the courts of the Ptolemies, and breathe the atmosphere of the first century before Christ, we must not commit the anachronism of criticizing our surroundings from the standard of twe... more »nty centuries after Christ. It is apparent that to a great extent we must be influenced by the thought of today, but the true student of history will make the effort to cast from him the shackles of his contemporary opinions and to parade the bygone ages in the boundless freedom of a citizen of all time and a dweller in every land.« less