Receive Your Copy Nefertiti And Cleopatra: Queen-Monarchs Of Ancient Egypt Outlined By Julia Samson Accessible As Volume

are two of our world's greatest women leaders and how their leadership powers of Egypt,

Some parts dragged a bit but overall it was quite interesting and quick to get through : Every once in a while, I go through spurts where I read everything about the Amarna Period I can get my hands on.
This book was picked up then,

I just read the first half Cleopatra doesn't interest me and found it all right, The authoress is insistent that the two young men who supposedly ruled after the Heretic King but prior to King Tut were actually Nefertiti something that I believe.


She also includes descriptions of some of the most trivial of every day objectslike cosmetics pots and tubesthat would be invaluable to anyone trying to write about every day life in Egypt.
When reading this book it quickly became clear to me, that the author, Julia Samson, is more enthusiastic about Nefertiti than Cleopatra the section about Neferti take up almostof the book! It also seems to be a bit of an advertisement for the museum, where Samson works the Petrie Museum in London.
There were some clear differences between

the writing in the two parts: The Nefertitipart is wellexplained, colourful and with a lot of examples, figures and plates used to support Samsons hypothesis', whereas the Cleopatra is narrative and with practically only Shakespeare as a source.
This is partly a testament to what I wrote before, about Samson's main focus, but also to the general sources we have about the two different Queens, born aboutyears apart.
From the time and life of Nefertiti our sources are mainly archeological and therefore open for interpretation at least more open that written accounts from Cleopatra's time.
It must also be noted, that some of things that Samson writes as truths have later been widely disputed like her NefertitiasSmenkhkaretheory, So while reading this book it is wise to always keep in mind that it is almostyears old new evidence and new theories have emerged.
What can we learn about Nefertiti and Cleopatra I'd like to thank Julia Samson for helping me hopefully pass Ancient History, This book, written by a woman intimately involved with the Amarna discoveries over decades since the thirties, consists of two biographies of two of the female pharaohs of Egypt.
There were others probably and one of the points of the book is to argue that they were indeed seen as the actual heads of state.


Be that as it may, I found this book interesting primarily because it was written with more attention paid to domestic matters than most others I've read which have concentrated on religion, politics, the sciences or the arts.
There is considerable attention paid to such topics as dress, cosmetology, childrearing and household arrangements albeit only of the very wealthy,

Both Nefertiti and Cleopatra are treated very sympathetically, which is to say imaginatively, because the author does often make inferences which are no more than plausible given existing written and archaeological records.
This is, in other words, a kind of feminist appropriation of these figures, a rather quaintly oldfashioned kind of feminism in keeping with the author's age at the time of composition and her British background.
Historical Fiction with Nonfiction nonfiction This is an account of the lives of two eminent QueenMonarchs of Ancient Egypt the beautiful NefertitiBC and the talented CleopatraBC.
Both politically adept, they also distinguished themselves in their love for the greatest men of their day: Nefertiti for the sunworshipping Pharaoh Akhenaten, and Cleopatra for Julius Caesar and Mark Antony.
Though they were far apart in time and culture, a likeness in their situation existed in their elegance, their position of power, their remarkable and unusual aims, and their grief and ultimate tragedy.
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