Kings and Queens

Anian. The Campaigns of Alexander the Great. New York: Dorset, 1971. A primary source.

Bevan, Edwyn R. The House of Ptolemy. Chicago: Ares, reprint (original 1927), republished in 1968. An important source of information on the period and the Ptolemies.

Bianchi, Robert. Cleopatra's Egypt. New York: Brooklyn Museum, 1988. Spectacular exhibition catalogue of art from the time of Cleopatra. Also includes much useful historical information.

Bradford, Ernie. Cleopatra. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1972. A detailed but readable biography.

Brier, Bob. The Murder of Tutankhamen. New York: Putnam’s, 1998. Theory that the boy-king was killed but also presents historical background.

Desmond, Alice Curtis. Cleopatra’s Children. New York: Dodd, 1971. The only work on what happened to Cleo’s kids. Readable and well researched.

Foreman, Laura. Cleopatra’s Palace. New York: Random House, 1999. A beautiful book tied to a television special but better than the program.

Fox, Robin Lane. Alexander the Great. New York: Dial, 1974. A readable, accurate biography.

Freed, Rita A. Ramses the Great. Boston: Boston Museum of Science, 1987. An exhibition catalogue but with a concise history of Ramses and good photographs of objects from the period.

George, Margaret. Memoirs of Cleopatra. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997.

A monumental, historically accurate fictional biography of Cleopatra.

Wonderful.

Grant, Michael. Cleopatra. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1972. Solid biography of the last queen of Egypt.

-. From Alexander to Cleopatra. New York: Scribner’s, 1982. Rich

Background to the lives of the kings and queens of the Greek period.

Hughes-Hallett, Lucy. Cleopatra. New York, Harper, 1990. More a social history of how Cleopatra was viewed than a biography. Quite interesting.

Kitchen, K. A. Pharaoh Triumphant: The Life and Times of Ramses 11. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 1982. The definitive work by the leading Ramses scholar. Highly readable.

Lindsay, Jack. Cleopatra. New York: Coward McCann, 1970. Readable, literary type of biography, sans footnotes.

Tyldesley, Joyce. Hatshepsut. New York: Viking, 1996. The most recent and best biography of the female pharaoh.