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The Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia

by Sarah Fielding · 1757

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This edition provides a fully annotated text of Sarah Fielding's The Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia based on the 1757 edition. It records Fielding's use of Greek and Roman writers, eighteenth-century historians, and Renaissance and Restoration playwrights.

Subject
historyhistoryMore like thisLess of this
Themes
royaltyroyaltyMore like thisLess of thiswomenwomenMore like thisLess of this
Setting
ancient Romeancient RomeMore like thisLess of thisantiquityantiquityMore like thisLess of thisEgyptEgyptMore like thisLess of thisRomeRomeMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 200 pages
Form
short storiesshort storiesMore like thisLess of this

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