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When Mark Antony abandons his men and flees to Egypt, they have no option but to surrender.

Waiting around to see what Octavianus will do, Antony falls into a depression.

He begins drinking too much, and his lover, Cleopatra starts despising him.

The growing personal animosity between them stops them from taking control of the situation, and soon their political decisions become compromised.

Meanwhile, one of Antony's favourite young slaves, Victor, falls in love with Daphene, a middle-class Greek girl.

Daphne's father is a classics-obsessed semi-ascetic, working at the Museion, with little time for his daughter.

She's lonely, quickly growing up, and falls for Victor, not minding when he reveals that he's a slave.

But Victor is locked into all the intrigues of the court, and is trying to save his master from sinking ever deeper into depression.

As the last days of Anthony and Cleopatra crawl ever nearer, Victor realises that his master is struggling to win a war they have no hope of surviving.

Can he find a way to save his master from himself and the enemy?

Can he help Cleopatra mend the country and her husband?

And will he ever be able to be with Daphne?

‘Last Days of Cleopatra’ is the third historical novel by Lindsay set in the Roman world. It follows on from ‘Rome For Sale’ and ‘Caesar is Dead’. In the book Mark Antony is referred to as King Antonius.

'A thrilling story that kept me gripped.' - Robert Foster, best-selling author of 'The Lunar Code'.

Jack Lindsay (1900-90) was the son of a well-known Australian artist, Norman Lindsay. He took first class honours in Latin and Greek at Queensland University, and came to England in 1926, where he worked as a translator, editor and novelist. He is the author of ‘Helen of Troy’, ‘Leisure and pleasure in Roman Egypt’, ‘Rome for Sale’, ‘Caesar is Dead’ and ‘The Ancient World’.

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