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“The strong look for more strength, the weak for excuses.”
- Memoirs of Cleopatra, Margaret George
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HQLP im reading confessions of a young Nero how dare Margaret George make one of the WORST FUCKING ROMAN EMPERORS EVER a sympathetic characters how fuckign dare you
#GEORGE#I SWEAR TO GOD#TO BE FAIR THO#YOU DID COVER THE PART WHERE HE#ODEPIDUSED HIMSELF SO#MAYBE NOT#Margaret george#confessions of a young nero#roman empire#ancient#ancient history#ancient rome#ancient culture#roman history
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Of all the lost things in the world, the things we will never know, this lost son of Caesar and Cleopatra’s must stand as the most tantalizing. What would he have been, what would he have grown into, with the gifts he had from both his remarkable parents? Octavian did not wish to find out – and so we never shall, either.
Only one small glint of mercy here: Cleopatra never knew of his fate; she closed her eyes and went into the dark believing that he was safe. Isis had protected her to the last from that which would hinder her passage into the other world by grieving her spirit.
The Memoirs of Cleopatra - Margaret George
#cleopatra#caesarion#ptolemaic dynasty#ancient egypt#ancient rome#margaret george#long live the queue#fuck you Octavian
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Yet against this incurable misery, the gods
give us the harsh medicine of endurance
- Archilochos
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Alright Margaret George is re-winning points in my book for gradually unpacking just how fucked up the Caesar+Cleopatra affair really was, the huge cultural gap between them, and why expecting a guy to change just because he likes you usually backfires horribly.
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I’ve tried The Marriage of Lions by Elizabeth Chadwick and while I enjoy most of her books, this one is a no-go.
It is an…interesting…choice to make Simon de Montfort a greedy child-tormenting villain and Henry III a lovely king who shouldn’t have had to deal with that pesky parliament. I soon await an exciting Chadwick novel about that good ruler King John and the terribleness that was the Magna Carta. Or perhaps how Queen Mary was a misunderstood sweetheart who was just fond of a good fire.
This said, that opposite portrayal isn’t the cardinal sin (I very much enjoyed Margaret George’s duology that portrayed Nero as a saintly unjustly maligned genius darling), the cardinal sin is that it’s so boring. It’s a daring choice to write a novel set in the period of civil war and momentous political changes and focus it on domestic matters of a wife of one of loyal to Henry noblemen but it doesn’t pay off. It’s boring. Joanna is a boring character (I think that’s a problem with recent Chadwicks in general - Nesta in The King’s Jewel was just as much a drab shadow of a person) and I don’t care about her life.
Anyway, if you want a good novel in the time period, Sharon K Penman’s Falls the Shadow and Edith Pargeter’s The Marriage of Megotta are a much much better bet. Tho they are both quite partial to de Montfort so if you want a novel partial to Henry III, this is it as it’s beyond slim pickings for obvious reasons.
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Time for our next episode of Through Time and Clades: our first review of a work of historical fiction! Follow me as I recount my time reading Margaret George's The Memoirs of Cleopatra (1997), the incredible story of the last active pharaoh of Egypt. For added context, I also give a brief history of the Hellenistic World born of Alexander the Great and discuss controversies in modern classical studies regarding the woman herself. Featuring artwork by me!
Link: https://youtu.be/o3hXO-dtQJ8
#Through Time and Clades#reviews#book review#The Memoirs of Cleopatra#Margaret George#Cleopatra#Julius Caesar#Mark Antony#Octavian#classical studies#antiquity#Ancient Egypt#Roman Republic#world history#historical fiction
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The pretender Warbeck was taken and locked securely in the fortress portion of the Tower, and we came out almost as he went in. A simple matter of which side of the walls one was on determined everything.
the autobiography of henry viii: with notes by his fool, will somers - margaret george
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— Margaret George, The Memoirs of Cleopatra
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KILL ME IF IT'S WORTH IT; ON FLESH.
silas denver melvin // ethel cain // george bataille // blythe baird // margaret atwood // nicole homer // emily palermo.
#sorry 2 silas denver melvin for having to endure all the posts where he's mentioned </3#on flesh#web weaving#silas denver melvin#ethel cain#george bataille#blythe baird#margaret atwood#nicole homer#emily palermo#writing#poetry#webweaving#quotes
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Empress of the Nile, Queen of Hearts: A Resplendent Journey with Cleopatra in "The Memoirs of Cleopatra"
Delve into a captivating journey through ancient times with "The Memoirs of Cleopatra," a 5-star review that mesmerizes. Join me in the Lit Lounge and explore this spellbinding tale!
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“perhaps the worst thing about the end of something is the compulsion to remember and recount all that has come before.”
- memoirs of cleopatra by margaret george
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Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Richard Siken, Crush (Little Beast)
George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire)
Margaret Atwood
Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
Yves Olade, Bloodsport
#The things we love destroy us every time#george r r martin#I desire the things that will destroy me in the end#the unabridged journals of sylvia plath#sylvia plath#Richard Siken#Crush#little beast#margaret atwood#yves olade#Bloodsport#suzanne collins#hunger games#web weavings#literature#dark academia#dark academia aesthetic#poetry#poets and writers#parallels#romantic academia#classic literature#web weaving#crush#sorry for the bony elbows
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Some things can be recovered. Some things can be restored. But some lost things, we seek forever.
Margaret George
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British Royal Family - 192-year-old Jonathan the tortoise meeting members of the Royal Family during his 142 years living on St Helena
1947 - King George VI, Queen Elizabeth, Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret
2024 - The Duke of Edinburgh
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Mmm, not sure how I feel about how Margaret George is portraying Caesar and Cleopatra’s relationship so far. The book reads like a pretty standard coming of age story/political drama up till Caesar appears, then veers into romance novel land. This is a very sentimental “Ooh he’s so cool” version of Cleopatra.
Now, this is just my personal taste, not a fault in the book itself. I imagine many folks reading about Cleopatra would want something romantic, and there’s no way to know for sure what was going on there. But if I may stray into headcanon territory...
I think Cleopatra and Caesar were using each other for political purposes. Caesar got a loyal ally on the Egyptian throne, and Cleopatra got to keep her throne, independence and depose her enemies. Sure, there was probably some real attraction involved - Caesar stayed way longer in Egypt than he should have, and she took an extended holiday in Rome - but I can’t see either of them letting sentiment come first.
And, personally, I think that mutual selfishness, wary respect, and a 21-year-old girl successfully wresting Egypt’s independence from a man who has a very good reason to just annex it instead, would be a much more interesting dynamic to explore.
But hey, I’m only 12% into the book. Margaret George may surprise me yet.
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