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The story of Cleopatra is a story of crime. It is a narrative of the course and the consequences of unlawful love. In her strange and romantic history we see this passion portrayed with the most complete and graphic fidelity in all its influences and effects; its uncontrollable impulses, its intoxicating joys, its reckless and mad career, and the dreadful remorse and ultimate despair and ruin in which it always and inevitably ends. Cleopatra was by birth an Egyptian; by ancestry and descent she was a Greek. Thus, while Alexandria and the Delta of the Nile formed the scene of the most important events and. | 1 Cleopatra by Jacob Abbott CHAPTER p I. CHAPTER CHAPTER I. CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II. CHAPTER II. CHAPTER III. CHAPTER III. CHAPTER IV. CHAPTER IV. CHAPTER V. CHAPTER V. CHAPTER VI. CHAPTER VI. CHAPTER VII. CHAPTER VII. CHAPTER VIII. CHAPTER VIII. CHAPTER IX. CHAPTER IX. CHAPTER X. CHAPTER X. CHAPTER XI. CHAPTER XI. CHAPTER XII. CHAPTER XII. Cleopatra by Jacob Abbott 2 Cleopatra by Jacob Abbott The Project Gutenberg eBook Cleopatra by Jacob Abbott This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title Cleopatra Author Jacob Abbott Release Date February 8 2004 eBook 10992 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CLEOPATRA E-text prepared by Ted Garvin Terry Gilliland and Project Gutenberg Distributed Proofreaders Makers of History CLEOPATRA BY JACOB ABBOTT Illustration CLEOPATRA. PREFACE Of all the beautiful women of history none has left us such convincing proofs of her charms as Cleopatra for the tide of Rome s destiny and therefore that of the world turned aside because of her beauty. Julius Caesar whose legions trampled the conquered world from Canopus to the Thames capitulated to her and Mark Antony threw a fleet an empire and his own honor to the winds to follow her to his destruction. Disarmed at last before the frigid Octavius she found her peerless body measured by the cold eye of her captor only for the triumphal procession and the friendly asp alone spared her Rome s crowning ignominy. TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER 3 CHAPTER I. THE VALLEY OF THE NILE II. THE PTOLEMIES III. ALEXANDRIA IV. CLEOPATRA S FATHER V. ACCESSION TO THE THRONE VI. CLEOPATRA AND CAESAR VII. THE ALEXANDRINE WAR VIII. CLEOPATRA A QUEEN IX. THE BATTLE OF PHILIPPI X. CLEOPATRA AND ANTONY XI. THE BATTLE OF ACTIUM XII. THE END OF CLEOPATRA ILLUSTRATIONS .
