17 Best history books like The Cleopatras: The Forgotten Queens of Egypt by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

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The Cleopatras: The Forgotten Queens of Egypt

By: Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

4.03

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The definitive story of the seven Cleopatras, the powerful goddess-queens of ancient Egypt   One o…

If you liked the history plot in The Cleopatras: The Forgotten Queens of Egypt by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones , here is a list of 17 books like this:

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1. Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age

By: Tom Holland

4.22

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Pax is the third in a trilogy of books narrating the history of the Roman Empire. The series that b… read more

Similar categories in Tom Holland's Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age book and Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones's The Cleopatras: The Forgotten Queens of Egypt

  • ancient history
  • nonfiction
  • history
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2. Cleopatra's Daughter: From Roman Prisoner to African Queen

By: Jane Draycott

3.77

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The first modern biography of one of the most influential yet long-neglected rulers of the ancient … read more

Similar categories in Jane Draycott's Cleopatra's Daughter: From Roman Prisoner to African Queen book and Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones's The Cleopatras: The Forgotten Queens of Egypt

  • history
  • biography
  • egypt
  • ancient history
  • nonfiction
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3. After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations

By: Eric H. Cline

3.84

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In this gripping sequel to his bestselling 1177 B.C., Eric Cline tells the story of what happened a… read more

Similar categories in Eric H. Cline's After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations book and Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones's The Cleopatras: The Forgotten Queens of Egypt

  • ancient history
  • nonfiction
  • history
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4. A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire

By: Emma Southon

4.23

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum comes a wildly entertai… read more

Similar categories in Emma Southon's A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire book and Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones's The Cleopatras: The Forgotten Queens of Egypt

  • ancient history
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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5. Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power

By: Leah Redmond Chang

4.18

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

The boldly original, dramatic intertwined story of Catherine de’ Medici, Elisabeth de Valois, and M… read more

Similar categories in Leah Redmond Chang's Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power book and Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones's The Cleopatras: The Forgotten Queens of Egypt

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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6. Agrippina: Empress, Exile, Hustler, Whore

By: Emma Southon

4.22

Format: 285 pages, None

They said she was a tyrant. A murderer, and the most wicked woman in history. She kicked her way… read more

Similar categories in Emma Southon's Agrippina: Empress, Exile, Hustler, Whore book and Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones's The Cleopatras: The Forgotten Queens of Egypt

  • ancient history
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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7. Messalina: Empress, Adulteress, Libertine: The Story of the Most Notorious Woman of the Roman World

By: Honor Cargill-Martin

4.06

Format: 432 pages, ebook

The shocking and scandalous story of Messalina—the third wife of Emperor Claudius—one of the most c… read more

Similar categories in Honor Cargill-Martin's Messalina: Empress, Adulteress, Libertine: The Story of the Most Notorious Woman of the Roman World book and Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones's The Cleopatras: The Forgotten Queens of Egypt

  • ancient history
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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8. The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

By: Bettany Hughes

4.02

Format: 416 pages, ebook

Their names still echo down the ages: The Great Pyramid at Giza. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon. Th… read more

Similar categories in Bettany Hughes's The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World book and Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones's The Cleopatras: The Forgotten Queens of Egypt

  • ancient history
  • egypt
  • history
  • nonfiction
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9. Hera

By: Jennifer Saint

3.75

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Hera, immortal goddess and daughter of the ancient Titan Cronos, helped her brother Zeus to overthr… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Saint's Hera book and Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones's The Cleopatras: The Forgotten Queens of Egypt

"She has been alone for a very long time."

-Jennifer Saint, Hera

"All she knows is that he leaves a trail of broken women in his wake, and she is the most broken of them all."

-Jennifer Saint, Hera

"But as he looms over her, blocking out the sky, it seems that he is everything in the world, that he is bigger than that sky. He is too immense and too strong. There is nothing that Hera, the warrior…"

-Jennifer Saint, Hera

"She can be anyone. Vengeful Hera, wrathful Hera, the queen of the heavens, most long-suffering of wives and cruellest of punishers, will continue without her. She can slip away from the tethers of wh…"

-Jennifer Saint, Hera

Cover of Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials by Marion Gibson

10. Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials

By: Marion Gibson

3.69

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A fascinating, vivid global history of witch trials across Europe, Africa, and the Americas, told t… read more

Similar categories in Marion Gibson's Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials book and Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones's The Cleopatras: The Forgotten Queens of Egypt

  • nonfiction
  • history
"James looks like he's waiting to mug old ladies, which of course is one way of looking at a witch trial."

-Marion Gibson, Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials

"Witch trials were not just misogynist festivals of torture and hatred; they also directly facilitated the building of empire."

-Marion Gibson, Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials

"As with later witch trials, like the ones in Salem, flexing normal court processes in response to a powerful authority can lead to mass injustice..."

-Marion Gibson, Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials

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11. House of Lilies: The Dynasty That Made Medieval France

By: Justine Firnhaber-Baker

4.30

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

The definitive history of the Capetians, the crusading dynasty that made the French crown the wealt… read more

Similar categories in Justine Firnhaber-Baker's House of Lilies: The Dynasty That Made Medieval France book and Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones's The Cleopatras: The Forgotten Queens of Egypt

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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12. Fall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline

By: Paul M.M. Cooper

4.44

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

Landmark world history from the creator of the Top Ten podcast Fall of Civilizations. Based on t… read more

Similar categories in Paul M.M. Cooper's Fall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline book and Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones's The Cleopatras: The Forgotten Queens of Egypt

  • ancient history
  • nonfiction
  • history
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13. Paradise of the Damned: The True Story of an Obsessive Quest for El Dorado, the Legendary City of Gold

By: Keith Thomson

3.80

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The transporting account of an obsessive quest to find El Dorado, set against the backdrop of Eliza… read more

Similar categories in Keith Thomson's Paradise of the Damned: The True Story of an Obsessive Quest for El Dorado, the Legendary City of Gold book and Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones's The Cleopatras: The Forgotten Queens of Egypt

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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14. Pox Romana: The Plague That Shook the Roman World (Turning Points in Ancient History)

By: Colin Elliott

3.76

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

A wide-ranging and dramatic account of the Antonine plague, the mysterious disease that struck the … read more

Similar categories in Colin Elliott's Pox Romana: The Plague That Shook the Roman World (Turning Points in Ancient History) book and Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones's The Cleopatras: The Forgotten Queens of Egypt

  • ancient history
  • nonfiction
  • history
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15. How the World Made the West: A 4,000 Year History

By: Josephine Quinn

4.12

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

An award-winning Oxford history professor overturns the way the West thinks about itself, tracing i… read more

Similar categories in Josephine Quinn's How the World Made the West: A 4,000 Year History book and Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones's The Cleopatras: The Forgotten Queens of Egypt

  • ancient history
  • nonfiction
  • history
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16. Babylonia

By: Costanza Casati

4.44

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the bestselling Clytemnestra comes another intoxicating excursion into ancient h… read more

Similar categories in Costanza Casati's Babylonia book and Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones's The Cleopatras: The Forgotten Queens of Egypt

  • ancient history
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17. The Cleopatras: The Forgotten Queens of Egypt

By: Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

4.03

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The definitive story of the seven Cleopatras, the powerful goddess-queens of ancient Egypt   One o… read more

Similar categories in Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones's The Cleopatras: The Forgotten Queens of Egypt book and Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones's The Cleopatras: The Forgotten Queens of Egypt

  • history
  • biography
  • egypt
  • ancient history
  • nonfiction
  • greece
Cover of The Voyage Home (Women of Troy, #3) by Pat Barker

18. The Voyage Home (Women of Troy, #3)

By: Pat Barker

4.24

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

The follow-up to Pat Barker's Number One bestseller THE WOMEN OF TROY Continuing the story of th… read more

Similar categories in Pat Barker's The Voyage Home (Women of Troy, #3) book and Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones's The Cleopatras: The Forgotten Queens of Egypt

  • greece
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19. Alexander at the End of the World: The Forgotten Final Years of Alexander the Great

By: Rachel Kousser

4.10

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A riveting biography of Alexander the Great’s final years, when the leader’s insatiable desire to c… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Kousser's Alexander at the End of the World: The Forgotten Final Years of Alexander the Great book and Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones's The Cleopatras: The Forgotten Queens of Egypt

  • history
  • biography
  • ancient history
  • nonfiction
  • greece
Cover of Odyssey (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #4) by Stephen Fry

20. Odyssey (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #4)

By: Stephen Fry

4.42

Format: 400 pages, ebook

The final book in Stephen Fry's acclaimed internationally bestselling Greek myths series telling th… read more

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  • ancient history
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • greece

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