Cleopatra
You're Dead to Me
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The Battle of Actium
By 33 BCE, the Triumvirate was pretty much over and Antony was politically exiled away from Rome. Octavian is in Rome, he's able to influence from the centre whereas Antony is in Alexandria. Cleopatra decides she's not going to turn on Mark Antony and she starts planning for her own death. She builds a mausoleum, so she's planning her own funeral - but tragically it doesn't happen.
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