February Meeting of the Tuesday Morning Book Group

The Peabody Institute Library Danvers invites everyone to the Tuesday Morning Book Group on February 14, from 10:00 to 12:00. The book for this meeting will be Stacy Schiff’s Cleopatra: A Life. Copies of the book, book reviews and information about the author will be available at the reference desk at the library.

Her palace shimmered with onyx and gold but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Above all else, Cleopatra was a shrewd strategist and an ingenious negotiator. She was married twice, each time to a brother. She waged a brutal civil war against the first and poisoned the second; incest and assassination were family specialties. She had children by Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, two of the most prominent Romans of the day. With Antony she would attempt to forge a new empire, in an alliance that spelled both their ends. Famous long before she was notorious, Cleopatra has gone down in history for all the wrong reasons. Her supple personality and the drama of her circumstances have been lost. In a masterly return to the classical sources, Stacy Schiff boldly separates fact from fiction to rescue the magnetic queen whose death ushered in a new world order.

All are welcome to attend. For more information please contact the Peabody Institute Library Danvers at 978-774-0554 or danversref@noblenet.org. Also check for other upcoming events at our website danverslibrary.org