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    Product details:

    • Publisher Cambridge University Press
    • Date of Publication 21 May 2026

    • ISBN 9781009487788
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages86 pages
    • Weight 262 g
    • Language English
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    Short description:

    A history of Cleopatra exploring themes of gender, identity, power, trauma, adverse childhood experiences, and family violence.

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    Long description:

    This Element adopts a psychosocial historical approach to explore the psychological functioning of Cleopatra VII, the last ruler of the Ptolemaic royal house. It investigates key themes that emerge from the data, including childhood trauma and displacement, sibling homicide, her relationships with Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, her divinity, and her suicide. To examine these issues, the author uses a cultural psychological framework, supplemented with social, investigative, and lifespan developmental psychological models, to analyze each theme in depth. The Element also includes a critical examination of how Cleopatra's psychological functioning is presented in Roman sources, alongside a comparison with her self-presentation in both Egypt and Rome. When Cleopatra's actions are viewed within an appropriate cultural context, characteristics that are now associated with psychiatric disorders can be repositioned as appropriate cultural and executive responses.

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    Table of Contents:

    1. Frameworks and approach; 2. Cleopatra's background and formative experiences; 3. Sibling homicide; 4. The Romans; 5. The death of Cleopatra; 6. Personality and psychological profile; 7. Self-presentation; 8. Conclusion; References.

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