Ancient Egypt: A Very Short Introduction by Ian Shaw

Author:Ian Shaw
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2004-05-11T04:00:00+00:00

She seems to have maintained some sort of intimate relationship with her architect Senenmut, who may have been the father of her daughter Neferure; perhaps he played Potemkin to her Catherine, whom she considerably resembled.

Apart from Hatshepsut, two other Egyptian ‘queens’ to receive the full treatment in posthumous personality profiling are Nefertiti (one of whose sculptures has become a kind of celebrity in its own right) and Cleopatra VII, the last of the Ptolemaic rulers and one of the foremost cultural icons of the movie industry during the 20th century. I will discuss the reputations and multifarious influences of Nefertiti and Cleopatra in the last chapter of this book, since these two Egyptian queens have undoubtedly crossed over into the arena of modern popular culture.

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