Whom “citing her sexual prowess was evidently less discomfiting than acknowledging her intellectual gifts.” Lucan, Appian, Josephus, Dio, Suetonius, Plutarch - the poets, historians and biographers Although it’s not Schiff’s purpose to present us withĪ feminist revision of a life plucked from antiquity, in order to “restore” Cleopatra - to see her at all - one must strip away an “encrusted myth” created by those for “Mostly,” Schiff says of “Cleopatra: A Life,” “I have restored context.” The claim stops sounding humble when we understand what it entails.
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