The most dangerous love story in history ends with a snake bite
Cleopatra and Antony (Antony)
Cleopatra VII, the beautiful, intelligent, ambitious queen
The last Ptolemaic king of Egypt for 20 years
Suicide instead of captivity:
At dawn one day in mid-August 30 BC. One of Queen Cleopatra's servants provided a cobra snake ((probably an Egyptian cobra)) as her means of suicide.
After she heard of the defeat of her husband, the Roman leader Mark Antony, in the war, the poisonous cobra snake remained an emblem of royalty in the Ptolemaic era, atop the heads of kings. They were two snakes, if we may believe the Roman poets Virgil, Horace, and Propertius.
Some historians have stated that it was the left royal shoulder that received the first fatal sting, and others said that it was Cleopatra's naked left breast.
In this state of despair, Cleopatra committed suicide by placing a poisonous serpent on her chest. The new invader, Octavius Caesar, hoped that the queen who ruled Egypt would march in his victory procession in Rome, but he quickly saw her body and headed to organize the government, so he announced his annexation of Egypt to the authority of the Roman people, and his announcement came in a short sentence. It does not contain more than five words.
After Cleopatra's death, the Romans killed her son Caesarion for fear that he would claim the Roman Empire as Julius Caesar's heir and crown prince. Cleopatra VII was depicted on a coin displayed in the Alexandria Museum, telling the story of Cleopatra, who inspired poets and story writers.
It was the subject of the play (Antony and Cleopatra) by William Shakespeare, the play (All for Love) 1977 by John Dryden, the play (Caesar and Cleopatra) by George Bernard Shaw, and a poetry glossary on Cleopatra’s Suicide by the poet Ahmed Shawqi.
Cleopatra VII was the last Ptolemaic ruler in Egypt, and she surpassed her predecessors in intelligence, prudence, and ambition. Cleopatra ascended the throne and ruled Egypt for twenty years (from 51 to 30 BC). The image of Cleopatra appeared on ancient Egyptian coins as a beautiful, lively woman with a delicate mouth and clear eyes. Cleopatra is one of the most prominent women in history, including Nefertiti, Semiramis, and Scheherazade.
Deny the story of suicide by snake bite
Professor Christoph Schaefer ((Professor of History at the University of Trier, western Germany)) denied the fact that Cleopatra died from a cobra snake bite, and suggested that she died because she drank a combination or cocktails of drugs. He based what he argued on the fact that the snake bite would have subjected Cleopatra to severe, excruciating, and prolonged pain before death, in addition to the physical mutilation that He was going to follow her, a beautiful woman who was very proud of her beauty.
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