The Memoirs of Cleopatra
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The Memoirs of Cleopatra is a novel
Novel
A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....

 written by Margaret George
Margaret George
Margaret George is an American historian and historical novelist, specializing in epic fictional biographies. She is known for her meticulous research and the large scale of her books. She was born in Nashville, Tennessee. She lives with her husband in Madison, Wisconsin...

 which was released on April 15, 1997.

The author spent years traveling through different parts of the Mediterranean to research this novel. The story starts off with Cleopatra VII's memories of when she is just three years old and continues until her death. It is written in an autobiographical manner, so as to make the reader believe that the story is told through Cleopatra's own voice. The book is 968 pages long.

A 1999 Hallmark TV miniseries, simply entitled Cleopatra
Cleopatra (1999 film)
Cleopatra is a 1999 fictional film portrayal of the Egyptian queen Cleopatra, produced by Hallmark Entertainment, starring Leonor Varela as the title character, Timothy Dalton as Julius Caesar, Billy Zane as Mark Antony, Rupert Graves as Octavius, Sean Pertwee as Brutus and Bruce Payne as Cassius....

, was loosely based on the events of the book. Although more historically accurate than other film adaptations of the Queen's life, it still deviated from the novel in several significant ways.
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