Антоний и Клеопатра. Рим и Египет. Встреча цивилизаций

The book is a summary of the history of Antony and Cleopatra. One of the most romantic stories created by ancient historical literature and combining literary mythology and political reality is presented by the author in its real historical context. The monograph, which combines elements of a scientific and popular science publication, attempts to compare the main trends in the development of Egyptian and Roman civilizations, to consider the transformation of Rome into a great power and the conquest of the Greco-Hellenistic world by the Romans, and, finally, to give a plot of interest to us against the background of civil wars in Rome 1st c. BC e., the death of the Roman Republic and the creation of the Empire of Caesar and Augustus. For specialists in the field of the history of Rome, historians and philologists, as well as all those interested in the history of the ancient world.