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What ultimately led to the death of Cleopatra?
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According to the History Channel, Marc Antony’s final defeat was followed by his death. But before he died, he advised his lover Cleopatra to make her peace with his enemy, Octavian. Yet while Cleopatra was irresistible to both Julius Caesar and Marc Antony, Octavian (later Augustus) refused her, and she was said to meet her fate at the bite of an asp soon after.
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What ultimately led to the death of Cleopatra?
- An incredibly subtle assassination
- An accidental encounter with a poisonous asp
- She couldn’t go on after Marc Antony’s death
- The defeat of Marc Antony and Octavius’s rejection
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