Queen Cleopatra

by Jake Jackson (Editor), Lindsay Powell (introduction)

256 pages, Paperback

Published September 17, 2024

About the author

SF and dark fantasy author but also a writer/creator of practical music books - Beginner's Guide to Reading Music, Guitar Chords, Piano Chords, Songwriter’s Rhyming Dictionary and How to Play Guitar. Other publications include Advanced Guitar Chords, Advanced Piano Chords, Chords for Kids, How to Play the Electric Guitar, Piano & Keyboard Chords, Scales and Modes and Play Flamenco. Also editor of Mythology books 

Released EP Jakesongs on iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, LastFM, etc and on CDBaby. Lifelong passion for fantastic worlds of any kind, from movies to fiction, art to music, posters, album and paperback book covers.

Jake Jackson is the artist name for Nick Wells, Publisher of Flame Tree Press / Flame Tree Publishing.

Reviews

[Simon]

This is rather deceitful as it appears to be a new work on Cleopatra, but in reality it's just a reprint primarily of the Jacob Abbot 1901 biography, along with extracts from Strabo, Josephius, Appias and Pliny.

So it doesn't include any modern scholar input, apart from a brief discussion at the beginning by the Editor.

So if you want a reprint of all the ancient sources that mention Cleopatra, this is your book. If you want something that benefits from the last 100+ years of research into Cleopatra, this ain't it.

[Casie]

Great info in cleopatra but I stopped at page 173. She does and then the references and further info come in. I’m no historian or writer but the title is “Queen Cleopatra” stop at her death and create another writings of after her 🤷🏼‍♀️

[Jessica J]

Not very much info about Cleopatra! Lots about Caesar and Antony, though.

[Chlo]

I learned some things reading this book, but this is really a book about Julius Caesar, Mark Antony and Augustus