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Antony and Cleopatra's Legendary Love Story
It is an ending so epic that Shakespeare himself couldn’t better it. In the golden city of Alexandria, Cleopatra VII (69-30 BC), Queen of Egypt, holes up in her self-made mausoleum, as her arch-nemesis Octavian (later known as Augustus), Emperor of Rome, closes in.
But she is not alone.
Mark antony and cleopatra biography videos
In her arms is her lover, the Roman general and statesman Mark Antony (83 -30 BC), who is dying of a self-inflicted stab wound. As he slowly slips away Cleopatra wails, beating her chest, smearing herself in his blood. Usually, a master of self-possession, she is losing her mind.
Antony dies as Cleopatra holds him. She will soon follow him to the grave.
Antony first met Cleopatra when she was 'still a girl and inexperienced'
Their love story had started over 10 years earlier when both were in their prime.
Cleopatra was the divine Ptolemaic ruler of prosperous Egypt – brilliant, silver-tongued, charming, scholarly and the richest person in the Mediter