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The Last Days of Cleopatra: History, Myth, and Popular Culture
Cleopatra’s death is one of history’s most famous ‘facts’—except nobody really knows what happened. Was it a snakebite? Poison? Or just a story cooked up to sell a better tragedy? Patricia Southern dives into the messy truth behind the myth, and the surprising ways Cleopatra’s final act keeps twisting through history and pop culture. Spoiler: it’s never just about the asp.
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