The settings of Ancient Rome and Alexandria are realistic and very plausible. Historical figures like Mark Anthony and Pompey the Great participate in the storyline, and their temperaments also reflect Plutarch’s descriptions of their lives. Cleopatra’s analyses and observations of the political world around her, including Egypt’s alliances, are insightful and even amusing. The author chose to portray Cleopatra as an adolescent, which demonstrates her maturity and development as the years pass within the memoir. Moreover, Cleopatra’s intelligence, not her beauty, dominates her strong-willed personality and initiates her reputation as a formidable ruler in her contemporary world. However, Kristiana Gregory creates her main character according to Plutarch’s descriptions of Cleopatra VII, not popular belief.Ĭleopatra’s first-person narration describes Cleopatra to be a linguist and a scholar. Cleopatra VII: Daughter of the Nile is a hypothetical journal by the last queen of Egypt.
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