I probably wouldn’t have finished this, had I continued to read the paperback version… I should know by now that for biographies and history in general, it really needs to be audio to keep my interest. Once I switched over and could multitask while I listened, I zipped through it. What a fascinating woman, and as I believe she says, perhaps the most famous woman in history. To have had children by both Julius Caesar and Marc Antony, right at a time when the Roman Republic became the Roman Empire, to have ruled as a queen in her own right in a time when women were in every other way considered second class citizens–amazing. It is really interesting how she’s depicted as a sex symbol now, but all the historical records imply that she wasn’t beautiful so much as charming, and very intelligent and politically astute. She sounds like a force of nature, whatever else she was.
My rating: ****
Language: none
Violence: none
Sexual content: none
Political content: none (historical)
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