Cleopatra

If we call Cleopatra, we will remember about Egyptian beautiful queen. But wait for a second, which Cleopatra do we say? Because in ancient Egypt history, actually there are seven queens named Cleopatra.

So, which one the most famous and the most beautiful? She is Cleopatra VII. She attract two Roman emperors in different eras with her beauty, they are Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony.

By Cleopatra’s appeal, Roman’s Triumvirate (three emperors) fights one another. Mark Anthony left his wife, Octavianus’ sister to get Cleopatra. It made Octavianus so angry. He attacked Mark Anthony and Cleopatra with his fighter soldiers. Mark Anthony and Cleopatra’s soldier lost in Actium, Greece, in 33 B.C.

Just like fifteen centuries too early Romeo and Juliet roman, Mark Anthony and Cleopatra desired to continue their love in eternal world. They were suicide. Mark Anthony killed himself by sword, and finally died in Cleopatra’s arm. While the queen killed herself by let herself bite with Asp snake (Egyptian cobra).

After Cleopatra death, Egypt fell in Octavianus’ arm, while he became the Roman’s Greatest Emperor with new name: Augustus, which recently named as month name.

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