cleopatrasdaughter: history meme | relationships 3/7 “Fool! Don’t you see now that I cou
cleopatrasdaughter:history meme | relationships 3/7“Fool! Don’t you see now that I could have poisoned you a hundred times had I been able to live without you.” ( Shakespeare, ‘Antony and Cleopatra’ )The marriage of Cleopatra VII, Macedonian Greek queen of Egypt, and Mark Antony, triumvir of Rome, is one of the greatest love stories of all time, a tale of unbridled passion with earth-shaking political consequences. Feared and hunted by the powers in Rome, the lovers choose to die by their own hands as the triumphant armies of Antony’s revengeful rival, Octavian, sweep into Egypt. The two left behind as legacies three children: Queen Cleopatra Selene II of Mauretania, Prince Alexander Helios, and Prince Ptolemy Philadelphos - Selene the only to survive childhood and go on to honour her parents’ in her adoptive country.“Cleopatra is said to have brought down the curtain on an age, although of course from the Egyptian perspective Antony too could be said to have done so. It is easy to forget he was Cleopatra’s undoing every bit as much as she was his.” ( ‘Cleopatra, A Life’ - Stacy Schiff )© -- source link
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