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A review by dashausfrau
Antony and Cleopatra by Colleen McCullough
4.0
Had to check out the audio book twice to get through all 26 hours & got many of the names, races & locations mixed up in my head, but I don't think I'd have read the whole thing in book form. Reinforced my understanding that a) there are so many repeated names in Roman history that you would have to specialize to keep them straight, b) rulers should never be encouraged to believe they are gods, and c) the most important job of the politicians is to manipulate & obfuscate while telling entertaining stories to the public.
This historical fiction covered the story of Gaius Octavius as much or more than that of Marcus Antonius (the names are really lovely in the audio), & I think he's more interesting anyway.
This was a pretty noble picture of the famous love story- as noble as you can make two characters who truly believe they deserve to be worshiped by the whole world- and very well written, I thought.
This historical fiction covered the story of Gaius Octavius as much or more than that of Marcus Antonius (the names are really lovely in the audio), & I think he's more interesting anyway.
This was a pretty noble picture of the famous love story- as noble as you can make two characters who truly believe they deserve to be worshiped by the whole world- and very well written, I thought.