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Alexandria after Actium: the fleet is gone, Antony is drinking, and Cleopatra — forty, brilliant, out of options — tests poisons and negotiates with Octavian's envoy while a young sculptor and his brother are destroyed at the edges of it. Ebers found the medical papyrus that bears his name and dug in Egypt for years; his Cleopatra is a working monarch, not a temptress, and the archaeology is exact. Sixty plates of Roman ruins, capricci and the Colosseum by painters including Panini and Pietro da Cortona carry the imperial Roman world that closes over Cleopatra and Antony.
Alexandria after Actium: the fleet is gone, Antony is drinking, and Cleopatra — forty, brilliant, out of options — tests poisons and negotiates with Octavian's envoy while a young sculptor and his brother are destroyed at the edges of it. Ebers found the medical papyrus that bears his name and du...
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Georg Ebers was a German Egyptologist and novelist who discovered the medical papyrus that still bears his name — one of the oldest surviving medical texts. Partly paralysed from his forties, he taught at Leipzig and poured his scholarship into historical romances of ancient Egypt that sold across Europe and America, and were credited with teaching a generation what a pharaoh's world looked like.
Georg Ebers was a German Egyptologist and novelist who discovered the medical papyrus that still bears his name — one of the oldest surviving medical texts. Partly paralysed from his forties, he taught at Leipzig and poured his scholarship into historical romances of ancient Egypt that sold acros...
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