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A world-renowned criminal profiler takes a fascinating look at one of the most tragic mysteries in history.
For more than two thousand years, the great pharaoh Cleopatra VII has been portrayed as a failed monarch. Various ancient sources state that she desperately ended her life with the bite of an asp, as her nemesis - the Roman general Octavian, later known as Augustus, the first Roman emperor - stormed Alexandria. Now, a completely unique interpretation of history is brought to light by world-renowned criminal profiler Pat Brown in her new myth-busting book, The Murder of Cleopatra.
As host and profiler of The Mysterious Death of Cleopatra (Discovery 2005), Brown challenged the long-enduring myth that Cleopatra died via snakebite and that she committed suicide to avoid further humiliation. Using the techniques and methodology of investigative criminal profiling and crime reconstruction, The Murder of Cleopatra takes up where the Discovery Channel documentary left off. Brown's findings, borne of scientific method, rigorous inquiry, and deductive reasoning, will be revealed against a historical backdrop of mystery, drama, politics, danger, and romantic intrigue.
The result: a thought-provoking analysis of the amazing woman Cleopatra truly was, a fascinating account of the queen's final desperate attempt to escape Egypt with her ships and treasure, and the brutal homicide that ended her life as the last Egyptian pharaoh.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
- Sales Rank: #1166698 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-02-19
- Released on: 2013-02-19
- Format: Kindle eBook
From Booklist
There was no suicide by asp, advises Brown; the most famous woman of antiquity was strangled on the orders of the victor of Rome’s civil wars, Octavian. Resting this belief on her reputation as a professional criminal profiler, Brown examined the sources about Cleopatra’s demise (Plutarch, Suetonius, Cassius Dio); detected defects in their descriptions of the death scene; and then traveled to Egypt in 2003 to investigate. There was more motivation to her trip than personal curiosity. Brown reveals that a TV production company enlisted her to appear in its program on Cleopatra, a natural choice because Brown’s own TV profile was high; according to her website (patbrownprofiling.com), up to 2010, she frequently appeared on tabloid TV shows to talk about crimes and criminals. For the cold case of Cleopatra, Brown envelops her suspicions of murder within a narrative of Cleopatra’s contested rule of Egypt, which she diplomatically maintained through Julius Caesar and Mark Antony until Octavian came knocking. Whether convinced by Brown’s theories or not, tastes for ancient mysteries will be well entertained by her account. --Gilbert Taylor
Review
"A compelling... investigation into the demise of Cleopatra, this book attempts to disprove the fabled story of her suicide by snakebite while hypothesizing a very different cause of death." --Publishers Weekly
"The end of Antony and Cleopatra after the lost battle of Actium has been the subject of endless books and articles written by historians and essayists. This idea of the murder of Cleopatra (and Antony)—developing an ancient cold case—is totally new and fascinating. Really thrilling to read!" --Dr. Hilke Thur, Institute for Studies of Ancient Culture, Austrian Academy of Sciences
About the Author
Pat Brown (Washington, DC) is the chief executive officer of the Sexual Homicide Exchange (SHE), a nonprofit criminal-profiling and investigative organization offering pro bono services to families and law enforcement to solve cold homicide cases throughout the United States and Canada (www.SHEprofilers.com); the president/consultant of the Pat Brown Criminal Profiling Agency, which provides crime-scene analysis and behavioral profiling to prosecutors, defense attorneys, and international clients (www.patbrownprofiling.com); and a well-known television crime commentator who has been a regular guest on Nancy Grace, Jane Velez-Mitchell, Dr. Drew, the Today Show, the CBS Early Show, Larry King Live, The Joy Behar Show, and Inside Edition. She is the author of How to Save Your Daughter's Life; The Profiler: My Life Hunting Serial Killers and Psychopaths; and Killing for Sport: Inside the Minds of Serial Killers.
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61 of 74 people found the following review helpful.
Sensationalism and Conjecture
By Menkaure
Cleopatra was as likely to have been murdered as she was to have been black: which is to say, not likely at all.
The assertion is entertaining and will no doubt sell books, but there are many reasons why Pat Brown's theories on Cleopatra---if they can even be called that---will be dismissed as nothing more than conjecture. Chief among them is the fact that Ms. Brown has no training in history or archaeology. Her expertise is in criminal profiling. It is this expertise that she attempts to apply to a 2000 year old event in which all of the participants are dust; in which there is no physical evidence to be examined; in which the only sources are a handful of Roman authors writing nearly a century after Cleopatra's death. As Brown correctly points out, these sources cannot be entirely trusted, as they were not primary witnesses, and they most definitely had agendas of their own. Yet they are our only sources. The author herself, even as she dismisses them, relies upon these Roman sources to reconstruct her profiles of Cleopatra and Octavian. As I said, these are the only sources that exist.
The error in Brown's reasoning lies in her understanding of the sources, and more importantly, in the characters of Cleopatra and Octavian. When one cuts out all of the window-dressing in this book, the heart of Brown's argument is that Cleopatra VII was strong, ambitious, and determined; she would not have committed suicide, because that would be giving up. A strong, independent woman never gives up. Therefore, her arch enemy, Octavian, must have killed her. This logic is the basis of Brown's entire argument. To support the argument Brown speculates on Octavian's motives for wanting Cleopatra dead, and more importantly for wanting to hide the fact that he killed her. This is where Brown's lack of historical training is most telling. It's a 21st Century interpretation of the 1st Century BCE, with little knowledge or understanding of 1st Century BCE culture, beliefs, or politics. In Cleopatra's world, suicide was not the act of failure that it is today; it was an act of bravery and defiance. Throughout Greco-Roman literature it was described in terms of awe.
Aside from this misinterpretation on Brown's part, her logic for Octavian's motivations are worse still. Brown's reasoning is that Octavian had Cleopatra secretly executed because she posed a real threat to his power, and because he coveted her wealth (she was no threat, and he already had her wealth). Octavian then conspired to cover up the execution by concocting the suicide story in order to protect his public image. This is all, of course, laughable to anybody familiar with 1st Century BCE Roman politics. Roman leaders did not hide assassinations, executions, or murders. They boasted of them! If Octavian had wanted Cleopatra dead, he would have cut her down and been done with it. No cover-up, no fabrications. In fact, this is exactly what he did with her son, Caesarion. It was no secret, and Roman historians never made it out as such. Hence Brown's argument collapses.
As for the method of Cleopatra's suicide, the snake story has already been discredited by real historians. The general consensus is that she took poison (Cleopatra was said to have been an expert in poisons), which was a common method of suicide in her day.
In the end, Pat Brown's book is merely another attempt to re-cast the famous Egypto-Macedonian queen in a more sympathetic light for the 21st Century mind, a way of putting our own time-stamp on a popular figure from the past. In my opinion, Cleopatra needs no up-dating. It's frankly delusional and a bit dishonest. Cleopatra lived by the standards of her day, not ours.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Very Good
By Paula Glaser
A very interesting read although there will the usual number of people who will say this is fiction it is a rethinking of what is called history. Pat Brown is a criminal profiler and brings her expertise to the problem of Cleopatra's death. She is quite open on how she became interested in the problem and develops her thesis slowly, at times a bit too slowly but thoroughly. Her pointing out that there are numerous conflicting stories of Cleopatra's death, how she died and the facts, such as they are, were not reported until years later make the official story or stories, there are at least a couple, seem a like a cover up. Read with an open mind, this is a good book and shows that history does deserve to have second and maybe third looks taken over incidents that we consider truth.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Let's face it, we'll never know ...
By Amazon Customer
... nor will Ms. Brown, but then she doesn't pretend otherwise. This is her interpretation as a leading criminal profiler which she offers to the readers for their consideration, and should be taken in that light. An interesting alternative to the accepted Cleopatra/Mark Antony Love-Story-meets-Snakes-Alive! hokum.
I remember watching the original television programme and how enthralIing I found it, especially as I'd never given much thought to the subject in the past. Pat Brown's book takes her theories a step further, and you have to give the author credit for the exhaustive research she's undertaken to back up her beliefs, including detailed analysis of naval warfare strategy, boat-building and route-marching! She examines the political reality of the world in which these fascinating people lived, the most likely (and self-serving) motivations behind all their actions, and the events leading up to the final show-down at Actium. The book isn't perfect by any means: some readers disliked her style of writing but I found it enjoyable, and made what could have been a dry treatise into a very readable (and sometimes quite funny) detective story. Her theories at times seem more to do with wishful thinking than any real evidence, and some of her arguments don't really hold water in my view. She does blot her copybook with the final chapter giving her interpretation of the final hour/days of Mark Antony and Cleopatra. Unfortunately she presents this in a fictional form, and it reads like a chapter in a pretty bad and rather fanciful romantic novel. Stretches the credibility a bit.
There are other flaws certainly. From early on she disses Plutarch (one of the few sources available on the subject) as being fanciful, biased and prone to exaggeration. Later on though, and when it suits her purpose, she quotes his writings in support of her argument. The fact is that the few sources available are second or third hand (am I right in remembering that Plutarch got his account of Cleo's death from Octavian himself?) and who knows how biased in favour of Octavian, mistaken, deaf, on the payroll or just plain drunk the writers were at the time. Or they could all be totally correct. Who knows?
Personally I think he done her in, guv, and spun the suicide tale to pacify the Alexandrian mob. True, these fellows weren't too bothered about hiding their murderous crimes, seeing it as a pr coup to demonstrate their superiority over their enemies. However sometimes discretion is the better part of valour, and Octavian by all accounts wasn't daft. He was trying to engineer a tricky take-over of a powerful and wealthy country, and far better to keep the people on side as much as possible rather than risk a costly uprising by openly admitting to murdering their queen, or carting her off to Rome as a spoil of war and really ticking the Egyptians off. Get her out of the way pdq, blame it on her hormones and keep your own hands clean. Job's a good'un.
On the other hand, neither do I subscribe to the author's view that suicide would never have been an option for Carry On Cleo, a feisty lady who always had a Plan B, C and E up her sleeve. I think her number was up, and she knew it. She was a prisoner of Octavian with no bargaining power, or even much army, left, Anthony was dead as a doornail and she herself had very little chance of survival even if she got as far as being paraded in ignominious defeat back in Rome. As a long-term prisoner she would still have remained a figurehead to her countrymen back in Egypt and therefore a permanent threat to Octavian, much as the incarcerated Mary Queen of Scots was to Elizabeth all those years. Octavian had no reason to keep her alive for long, so better to give him the finger and go out with a show of bravado.
So what is my final assessment? I think she committed suicide and also that Octavian murdered her. Depends on what day of the week it is and whether there's an R in the month. The point is, Pat Brown's enthralling book, warts and all, made me think twice about the accepted version of events. Read it, enjoy it for what it is - a different viewpoint, fascinatingly told - and by the end of it, if nothing else, you'll know a heck of a lot more than you did about the battle of Actium!
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