Antony and Cleopatra
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Octavian pursued the vanquished pair, and soon after he invaded Egypt in 30 BCE, Marc Antony and Cleopatra died by suicide.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
The focus is on Antony and Cleopatra as mature lovers.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 16, 2022
Years later, we did Antony and Cleopatra together.
From The Guardian • Jul. 9, 2020
If forced to choose, Shakespeare would side with Dido, not Aeneas, and he honors the incandescent passion between Antony and Cleopatra as worth more than all of eternal Rome.
From Washington Post • May 22, 2019
As Mark Antony and Cleopatra made their way north from Patras to Actium, they were not worried.
From "Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen" by Susan Blackaby
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