By Edwyn Bevan
First released in 1927, this name offers a well-regarded research of this exciting and sometimes over-looked interval of Egyptian historical past, either for the overall reader and the scholar of Hellenism.
Edwyn Bevan describes his paintings as ‘an try and inform afresh the tale of an exceptional experience, Greek rule within the land of the Pharaohs…which ends with the stunning episode of Cleopatra’. the result's a outstanding synthesis of old scholarship, prose type and breadth of imaginative and prescient, with the intention to nonetheless end up to be of price to Egypt lovers and scholars of Egyptology.
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