In the canon
Caesar and Cleopatra
- Form
- Form Play
- Year
- Year 1901
- Pages
- Pages 130
Moonlight over the Egyptian desert, and a balding, middle-aged Roman stands before the Sphinx telling it that the two of them are strangers to the race of men and no strangers to one another. A voice answers from between its paws: a girl of sixteen who has been taught that Romans live on human flesh, and who happens to be Queen of Egypt.
He who has never hoped can never despair.
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