Soundly defeated, Cleopatra could negotiate only the form of her surrender ... Very likely she enlisted a gentle poison rather than an asp. Octavian was at once disappointed and in awe of his ...

In 41 B.C.E., Egyptian queen Cleopatra convinced Mark Antony, her political ally and lover, to arrange the murder of her own ...

An astute ruler romantically linked to Julius Caesar and Marc Antony, Cleopatra chose to die from the bite of an asp rather than submit to her enemies. At that time, one of the most celebrated ...

that fatal asp bite... most of us only know a handful of 'facts' about the life of Cleopatra (with most of those gleaned from the Shakespeare play), but there's so much more to tell. Full of ...