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Part Two: Murder of Cleopatra

Bust of Cleopatra VII, Young.


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edges used by the researcher and his team to defend his thesis is the letter that supposedly, Cleopatra sent Octavio Augusto. In this letter, The Queen of Upper and Lower Egypt recounts his decision to commit suicide with Octavio. Judging from the findings of the Examiner, it is very unusual for someone to send a suicide note with his captor, if you really want to assassinate him, knowing that it was very close to her and to learn what tried, could well stop.
suicide letters usually are left at the scene of death as a witness, as the expert in homicide and not sent before the event.
Again I think we can refute this interpretation, trying to understand the thinking of people who participated in the drama and its historical context.

First is very likely that a woman like Cleopatra, with all the power he had and the pride generated by this merger, decide to insult and ruin the victory of Augustus, using the last letter he had in hand. Usurping the pleasure of showing defeated and humiliated in front of the Romans, by taking his life, before being taken as trophies of war to Rome.

Cleopatra was a very cultured and intelligent. Its proximity to Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, you could get Roman traditions concerning the treatment of large enemies and use as a symbol of victory in the ceremonies when a general came victorious from a major military campaign.
In these ceremonies called "Triumphs" prisoners of war were most significant relevant action in a religious drama that is orchestrated in honor of the gods of Rome, which ended with the strangulation death of a captive enemy. For this reason, it is certain that this woman knew its dramatic end in the hands of Augustus. It is therefore very likely to have decided to suicide, and the way he did. This act would get a double victory over the Romans.

First, would shame the proud Octavio to perform a masterful escape from their clutches, leaving it unable to perform his triumph. Second, in summarizing his death through a bite from a Egyptian cobra and concrete so mystical and religious sacrifice, a victory would still be larger than the first, remaining forever in the collective unconscious of his subjects as the reincarnation of the goddess Isis.

Cleopatra and theatrical appearance in front of Julio Cesar