Egypt
Cleopatra's death in 30 bc at the hands of an Egyptian asp is the stuff of legend but there is others who doubt this. A death by snake bite would have been a slow pain full death and that more than likely the Egyptian ruler took a quicker more fashionable poison. The question is more than likely unanswerable barring the discovery of Cleopatra's mummy except that the suffering of the Queen would more than likely be unacceptable especially in suicide.
The truth may be that the Romans like the Egyptian were huge propagandists and the thought that the Asp worn on the heads of Egypt's rulers for thousands of years would in the end turn on its master and kill Egypt's last great ruler is a terrific piece of propaganda and maybe nothing more.
- Another Report Re Proposal That Arsinoe Was Pharaoh
Discovery News (Rossella Lorenzi) Cleopatra may not have been ancient Egypt's only female pharaoh of the Ptolemaic dynasty -- Queen Arsinoë II, a woman who competed in and won Olympic events, came first, some 200 years earlier, according to a new...
- Review: Schiff's Cleopatra
Voice of America (David Byrd) A new biography by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Stacy Schiff tackles the life, death and legacy of Cleopatra. Schiff's work challenges some of the assumptions long held about Egypt's last queen. It has been said...
- Exhibition: Where's Cleo?
Archeaology Magazine (Mark Rose) Cleopatra’s reputation as a seducer of emperors—Julius Caesar, Mark Antony, and Octavian (later Caesar Augustus)—and her suicide by snake bite have made her one of the ancient world’s most intriguing characters....
- Book Review: Cleopatra And Antony
Washington Post (By Jonathan Yardley) Cleopatra and Antony - Power, Love, and Politics in the Ancient World By Diana Preston Walker and Company More than two millennia after it took place, the story of Cleopatra has lost none of its grip on the world's...
- Cleopatra's Death By Snake A Myth?
Discovery Channel Popular lore holds that in Cleopatra's last moments, the distraught queen -- who had just lost her kingdom and learned of her lover's demise -- smuggled a poisonous snake into her locked chamber and died, along with two ladies-in-waiting,...
Egypt
Cobra Kisses
Cleopatra's death in 30 bc at the hands of an Egyptian asp is the stuff of legend but there is others who doubt this. A death by snake bite would have been a slow pain full death and that more than likely the Egyptian ruler took a quicker more fashionable poison. The question is more than likely unanswerable barring the discovery of Cleopatra's mummy except that the suffering of the Queen would more than likely be unacceptable especially in suicide.
The truth may be that the Romans like the Egyptian were huge propagandists and the thought that the Asp worn on the heads of Egypt's rulers for thousands of years would in the end turn on its master and kill Egypt's last great ruler is a terrific piece of propaganda and maybe nothing more.
- Another Report Re Proposal That Arsinoe Was Pharaoh
Discovery News (Rossella Lorenzi) Cleopatra may not have been ancient Egypt's only female pharaoh of the Ptolemaic dynasty -- Queen Arsinoë II, a woman who competed in and won Olympic events, came first, some 200 years earlier, according to a new...
- Review: Schiff's Cleopatra
Voice of America (David Byrd) A new biography by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Stacy Schiff tackles the life, death and legacy of Cleopatra. Schiff's work challenges some of the assumptions long held about Egypt's last queen. It has been said...
- Exhibition: Where's Cleo?
Archeaology Magazine (Mark Rose) Cleopatra’s reputation as a seducer of emperors—Julius Caesar, Mark Antony, and Octavian (later Caesar Augustus)—and her suicide by snake bite have made her one of the ancient world’s most intriguing characters....
- Book Review: Cleopatra And Antony
Washington Post (By Jonathan Yardley) Cleopatra and Antony - Power, Love, and Politics in the Ancient World By Diana Preston Walker and Company More than two millennia after it took place, the story of Cleopatra has lost none of its grip on the world's...
- Cleopatra's Death By Snake A Myth?
Discovery Channel Popular lore holds that in Cleopatra's last moments, the distraught queen -- who had just lost her kingdom and learned of her lover's demise -- smuggled a poisonous snake into her locked chamber and died, along with two ladies-in-waiting,...