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Table of Contents

FRONT COVER IMAGE

WELCOME

DEDICATION

MAPS

CHAPTER I

That Egyptian Woman

CHAPTER II

Dead Men Don’t Bite

CHAPTER III

Cleopatra Captures the Old Man by Magic

CHAPTER IV

The Golden Age Never Was the Present Age

CHAPTER V

Man Is by Nature a Political Creature

CHAPTER VI

We Must Often Shift the Sails When We Wish to Arrive in Port

CHAPTER VII

An Object of Gossip for the Whole World

CHAPTER VIII

Illicit Affairs and Bastard Children

CHAPTER IX

The Wickedest Woman in History

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ILLUSTRATION CREDITS

NOTES

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

ALSO BY STACY SCHIFF

COPYRIGHT

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