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Cleopatra
You're Dead to Me
Cleopatra and the Battle of Actium
In 30 BCE, Octavian decided that he was going to attack Egypt directly. Cleopatra went to her mausoleum and sealed herself inside. Plutarch and Cassius Dioe say she told her attendants to tell Antony that she was dead. This report prompted Antony to stab himself in the knee. He regains consciousness but has to die by her side. She stays in the tomb grieving for a week before they drag her out through a window. Although another story says that they grab her kids as hostage.
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