(I'm sorry if I keep rambling about anger and developing hatred. I just recently watched Star Wars: The Force Awakens and the whole dark side thing really has my blood pumping with excitement. Good movie, by the way)
Like this sense of the online casino blended with a live community. The e-casino has lots of games that are fun and at the same time give you the chance to win and feel part of a larger place, full of friends.
The series is fictional, though it involves real historical figures. Facts and images concerning the historical figure featured in the book are given at the end of each of the books.
At ten years old, Nefret becomes a handmaiden to Cleopatra, the last queen of Egypt. Nefret's diary gives a unique insight to the life of this most famous and powerful ruler; her brains and her beauty, music and merrymaking, her love for two great men, Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, and her determination to rule Egypt well.
I avidly read the Royal Diaries series during my middle school years. Like most young girls, I was fascinated with princesses and--maybe not so much like most young girls--deeply interested in the power politics of royalty.
In true pharaonic tradition, which aimed to keep the royal bloodline as pure as possible, Cleopatra married her younger brother and co-ruler, but it soon became clear that she had no intention of sharing power with him.
When she and her father was back in town, Berenice was beheaded and brought to the kind and Cleopatra to prove it. There was the whole thing, head, blood and all. If I was Berenice, I would've done the same thing, to take over the kingdom for a short period of time, protesters can make Alexander garbage if no one was in charge, I didn't think that Berenice deserved to be beheaded.
You see her meet Caesar and Mark Anthony and other historical figures, for example, but since her real interactions with them did not happen until later in her life, nothing exciting actually occurred in the story itself. Instead, all these history are included in the appendix, which is pelo different from other history books.
She keeps saying that she wants to be a better ruler than her father yet we don't see her thoughts about how to fix the mistakes of her father or from her sisters being pharaoh. She doesn't think of the people who are out to kill her or the consequences that affect her people from such poor kings and queens before her. Or at least, not from the diary.
I don't know why - maybe it was a senseless prejudice against spin-offs or maybe I thought the gold edges were tacky. Anyway, I didn't read them, and for that reason I'm only read more finding out in adulthood that Cleopatra MARRIED HER BROTHER AND COMMITTED SUICIDE BY SNAKE??
So it’s not at all unlikely that long before Cleopatra was born, her Greek heritage had become mixed with other strains. And since the identity of her own grandmother is unknown, it is foolish to think that we’re sure of her racial identity.
Ancient literary sources about Cleopatra are remarkably sparse. Women never fare well in ancient history, and there is no work specifically devoted to the queen, nor is there a major contemporary source. Plutarch’s biography of Marcus Antonius (see Plutarch 1988) is the closest to an actual narrative about the queen, but was written one hundred years after her death and is limited in its focus. Second in importance is the Roman History of Cassius Dio (see Dio 1914–1927), the only continuous extant history of Cleopatra’s era. Also of significance are the works of the Jewish historian Josephus (Josephus 1928 and Josephus 1930–1965), whose interest was limited to the southern Levant, but this was an area of importance to Cleopatra.
Author Margaret George read about Cleopatra as a young girl, and had always had an interest in the classics. George related to the historical figure because they were both dark-haired, in an era when most images of beauty seemed to be blonde. She spent two and a half years writing The Memoirs of Cleopatra,[1] traveling to Egypt four times to research it.[2] Referring to the many incorrect presentations of the legendary queen, George considers her novel to be "the most historically accurate version within the limits of the medium".
With those riches went as well a vast quantity of kindling. Were she to disappear, the treasure of Egypt would disappear with her. The thought was a torture to Octavian