Реферат: Cleopatra Essay Research Paper CleopatraCleopatra was queen

?Now, Antony, why delay longer? Fate has snatched away your only reason for

living? (Flamarion 219). With that, he plunged a dagger into his stomach, however

did not die instantly.

She was a mysterious and intriging woman who seemed that she would do

anything to keep Alexandria under Egyptian rule no matter what the consequences.

Rather than have to face the humility of attending her enemy?s triumph, she

committed suicide by being intentional bitten by an asp, which was an Egyptian

cobra, and was buried at Antony?s side as she had requested. She died on August 12,

30 BC, at the age of 39. The Egyptian religion declared that ?death by snakebite

secured immortality, allowing her to achieve her dying wish, not to be forgotten?

(MacUrdy 129). Her death was the mark of the end of Egyptian Monarchs, as well

as the last Egyptian Pharaoh, because after her death, Egypt became a Roman

province, however her legacy still lives on.

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