Cleopatra VII: Power, Strategy, and the End of Independent Egypt
A Political Biography of the Last Pharaoh
Failed to add items
Add to basket failed.
Add to wishlist failed.
Remove from wishlist failed.
Adding to library failed
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Get 30 days of Standard free
Cleopatra VII: Power, Strategy, and the End of Independent Egypt
Buy Now for £18.29
-
Narrated by:
-
Liz Jones
-
By:
-
Tom Hicks
About this listen
Cleopatra VII Philopator is one of the most misunderstood rulers in history.
This is not the story you think you know.
Stripped of centuries of myth, scandal, and Roman propaganda, Cleopatra: Power, Strategy, and the End of Independent Egypt presents Cleopatra as she truly was: a highly intelligent political leader governing as Roman imperial power closed in.
When Cleopatra ascended the throne in 51 BCE, Egypt was wealthy but vulnerable—essential to Rome, yet unable to resist it. She ruled not at the height of Egyptian power, but at its breaking point. Her alliances with Julius Caesar and Mark Antony were not romantic indulgences, but calculated strategies to delay annexation and preserve sovereignty for as long as history allowed.
Drawing on ancient sources and modern scholarship, this book reexamines Cleopatra’s reign as a case study in rule under constraint—and shows how empires consolidate power not only through conquest, but by controlling historical narrative.
This is not a story of seduction.
It is a political history of survival.
©2026 Tom Hicks (P)2026 Tom Hicks