6/20/2023 0 Comments Lily of the Nile by Stephanie Dray![]() As his sister Octavia explains: “Love causes pain, but good marriages benefit the state. ![]() So ends her life as the Ptolemaic daughter of Egypt and begins her chafing servitude under Octavian’s cold tutelage for his own political advancement. The Resurrection, as Selene names herself, is granted clemency as she begs life at Octavian’s knees just as blade splashes the bright blood of the Prince of Emesa in her defence. Opening with the death of Cleopatra, the narration of her daughter Selene takes her twin Helios and younger brother Philadelphus back as a prize for Octavian’s Triumph. A novel that seeks to drive home the understanding that “without Isis, people forget female divinity”. So speaks the author as to the essence of her opening novel, of what will become a trilogy, where the fading light of Isis wars with the conquering darkness of Jupiter. ![]() To me, Rome’s spirit was all male.” So speaks Selene Ptolemy, daughter of Anthony and Cleopatra, from her gilded cage in the house of Octavia in Rome. Egypt was as seductive as a temptress, nurturing as a mother, and wise as a crone. “Where Egypt fed the world, Rome tamed it. ![]()
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