Cleopatra
You're Dead to Me
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The Nuanced Window
Cleopatra is allowed to oversee Antony's funeral arrangements, but she also falls ill. Octavian did say that Cleopatra would let her live, but that would mean of course going to Rome as a prisoner of war. For many historians, we would classify this as the end of dynastic Egyptian history. Not everyone agrees, but that's sort of broadly how people see it.
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