Cleopatra
Introduction
Primary sources are very important in the aid of research. They give us first hand accounts of historical events, whether as an actual participant, witness or simply an historian of the time. Primary resources I used for this paper are the writings of Plutarch and Dio Cassius. There are no primary resources that directly document Cleopatra’s life. While Plutarch and Dio Cassius lived about 200 years after her death, they are the closest resources …
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…History, vol. 5 (Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1917) 407. * Dio Cassius again questions the paternity of Cleopatra’s children.
13. Bradford, 170.
14. Bradford, 171
15. Loomis, 225.
16. Loomis, 224.
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**Bibliography**
Bibliography
Bradford, Ernle. Cleopatra. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc., 1972.
Cary, Earnest. Dio’s Roman History, vol. 4,5,6. Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1917.
Flamarion, Edith. Cleopatra: The Life and Death of a Pharaoh. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1993.
Loomis, Louise Ropes, trans. Plutarch: Selected Lives and Essays, vol. 2. New York: Walter J. Black, Inc., 1951.
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