Cleopatra Paperback / softback
by Sir H Rider Haggard
Paperback / softback
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The history of the ruin of Antony and Cleopatra must have struck many students of the records of their age as one of the most inexplicable of tragic tales.
What malign influence and secret hates were at work, continually sapping their prosperity and blinding their judgment?
Why did Cleopatra fly at Actium, and why did Antony follow her, leaving his fleet and army to destruction?
An attempt is made in this romance to suggest a possible answer to these and some other questions. The reader is asked to bear in mind, however, that the story is told, not from the modern point of view, but as from the broken heart and with the lips of an Egyptian patriot of royal blood; no mere beast-worshipper, but a priest instructed in the inmost mysteries, who believed firmly in the personal existence of the gods of Khem, in the possibility of communion with them, and in the certainty of immortal life with its rewards and punishments; to whom also the bewildering and often gross symbolism of the Osirian Faith was nothing but a veil woven to obscure secrets of the Sanctuary.
Whatever proportion of truth there may have been in their spiritual claims and imaginings, if indeed there was any, such men as the Prince Harmachis have been told of in the annals of every great religion, and, as is shown by the testimony of monumental and sacred inscriptions, they were not unknown among the worshippers of the Egyptian Gods, and more especially of Isis.
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- Pages:312 pages
- Publisher:Blurb
- Publication Date:03/10/2019
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- ISBN:9780368875656
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- ISBN:9780368875656
