PositiveThe Telegraph (UK)Entertaining ... Llewellyn-Jones has a tabloid journalist’s eye for the juicy anecdote and lurid story, and there are plenty of both in this history ... The caveat to these salacious stories, however entertaining, is that much of what we think we know about the Cleopatras is either supposition or downright fiction, based on the accounts of later, prejudiced, Roman authors. Even when this bias is acknowledged, a heavy reliance on Greek and Latin sources can lead scholars to conclude that the Cleopatras were exceptional.
