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Mark Anthony & Cleopatra
Title: Mark Anthony & Cleopatra
Category: History
Details: Words: 1012 | Pages: 4.3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Mark Anthony & Cleopatra
Mark Antony (83?-30 BC),
Roman statesman and general, who defeated the assassins of Julius Caesar and, with Gaius Octavius and Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, formed the Second Triumvirate, which ultimately secured the end of the Roman Republic.
Antony was born in Rome and educated for a short time in Greece. From 58 to 56 BC he served as a leader of cavalry in Roman campaigns in Palestine and Egypt, and from 54 to 50 BC he served in Gaul under Julius …showed first 75 words of 1012 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1012 total…and she and Antony fled to Alexandria. On the approach of Octavian, Antony, deceived by a false report of the death of the queen, committed suicide. Hearing that Octavian intended to exhibit her in his triumph at Rome, Cleopatra killed herself, probably by poison, or, according to an old tradition, by the bite of an asp. Octavian put Caesarion, the last member of the Ptolemy dynasty, to death, and Egypt subsequently became a Roman province.
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