It was recorded that Octavian allowed for her and her husband, the Roman politician and general Mark Antony, who stabbed himself with a sword, to be buried together properly.Ĭleopatra's death effectively ended the final war of the Roman Republic between the remaining triumvirs Octavian and Antony, in which Cleopatra aligned herself with Antony, father to three of her children. The location of Cleopatra's tomb is unknown. Some academics hypothesize that her Roman political rival Octavian forced her to kill herself in a manner of her choosing. Modern scholars debate the validity of ancient reports involving snakebites as the cause of death and if she was murdered or not. According to popular belief, Cleopatra killed herself by allowing an asp ( Egyptian cobra) to bite her, but for the Roman-era writers Strabo, Plutarch, and Cassius Dio, Cleopatra poisoned herself using either a toxic ointment or by introducing the poison with a sharp implement such as a hairpin. One common and well told story about Queen Cleopatra was that she took baths in donkey milk to preserve her beauty.The death of Cleopatra VII, the last ruler of Ptolemaic Egypt, occurred on either 10 or 12 August, 30 BC, in Alexandria, when she was 39 years old.
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