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But the real Cleopatra was far more interesting. Her story is told in a new biography, "Cleopatra: A Life", by Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Stacy Schiff.
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She is the stuff of myth and legend, one of history's great heroines: Cleopatra, queen of Egypt. Lover of Julius Caesar and Mark Antony. Subject of Shakespeare, Shaw and, of course, the cinema.
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