'I am the seventh Cleopatra of my name, but I mean the world to forget all the others and remember me alone.'
Whilst winning the hearts of the ancient world's greatest men, the legendary Cleopatra ruled a mighty nation in a time of extensive unrest.
Her beauty was matched only by her passion for life, her dignity and her power.
Despite being scorned by some as a ruthless, scheming courtesan she was also worshipped as a goddess. In proud defiance of all her critics, she combined her femininity with a ruthless ambition to secure the safety of her land, her people and her children by winning the undying respect and love of Julius Caesar and Marc Antony.
The Alexandrian is a wonderful novel, and the magic of it is the thrilling story of this incomparable woman as she might have told it herself.
"A brilliant re-creation of Cleopatra and the world she lived in, ... She shows herself a vivid and exciting person" - Gwen Bristow
"Dramatic, colorful, sure to please ... Rofheart's Cleopatra is a fully delineated, fascinating, and wholly sympathetic figure: charming, intelligent, sensuous, politically acute, and consummately ambitious ... An absorbing story from start to finish." - Publishers Weekly
"I followed your Cleopatra with passionate interest. Your book is totally absorbing and the tragic suspense as the story unfolds is almost more than one can bear." - Lynn Fontanne
"The exciting story of a richly endowed human being ... Mrs. Rofheart moves her story along at a lively pace." - Granville Hicks, American Way
"Pleasurable tension ... Martha Rofheart is a very good writer of historical fiction." - Bookletter
Genre: Historical
Whilst winning the hearts of the ancient world's greatest men, the legendary Cleopatra ruled a mighty nation in a time of extensive unrest.
Her beauty was matched only by her passion for life, her dignity and her power.
Despite being scorned by some as a ruthless, scheming courtesan she was also worshipped as a goddess. In proud defiance of all her critics, she combined her femininity with a ruthless ambition to secure the safety of her land, her people and her children by winning the undying respect and love of Julius Caesar and Marc Antony.
The Alexandrian is a wonderful novel, and the magic of it is the thrilling story of this incomparable woman as she might have told it herself.
"A brilliant re-creation of Cleopatra and the world she lived in, ... She shows herself a vivid and exciting person" - Gwen Bristow
"Dramatic, colorful, sure to please ... Rofheart's Cleopatra is a fully delineated, fascinating, and wholly sympathetic figure: charming, intelligent, sensuous, politically acute, and consummately ambitious ... An absorbing story from start to finish." - Publishers Weekly
"I followed your Cleopatra with passionate interest. Your book is totally absorbing and the tragic suspense as the story unfolds is almost more than one can bear." - Lynn Fontanne
"The exciting story of a richly endowed human being ... Mrs. Rofheart moves her story along at a lively pace." - Granville Hicks, American Way
"Pleasurable tension ... Martha Rofheart is a very good writer of historical fiction." - Bookletter
Genre: Historical
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