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The war against Antony and Cleopatra

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The Story of Cleopatra and Octavian

Cleopatra's children are shipped off to Rome and they are brought up by none of them, Anthony's divorced wife Octavian. The boys never make it to adulthood and though we can never rule out poison, they might have been killed. But the girl becomes queen Cleopatra Selini who rules a North Africa very successfully. So now we get into Shakespeare territory where Anthony, what's left of his army is finally defeated and he does the Roman thing - suicide.

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