Cleopatra Selene II had a turbulent life from the beginning. Born to Cleopatra and Mark Antony amid their alliance following Julius Caesar’s assassination, Cleopatra Selene II entered the world during ...
Roman General Mark Antony, disputing Octavian’s right to leadership, formed a romantic and political alliance with Cleopatra. However, he abandoned her and the twins she bore him to marry ...
If Cleopatra had been less captivating, for whatever reason, Mark Antony would have had more time to attend to affairs of state in Rome. Had he done that he might have prevented Octavian (later to ...
She was executed at Ephesus by orders of Mark Antony in 41 BC at the behest of Cleopatra. They did further analyses of bone samples from a femur (the thigh bone) and a rib of the skeleton.
Cleopatra's half-sister, who was reportedly killed in 41 BCE at the behest of the Egyptian queen's lover, Mark Antony. The skull was discovered in 1929 during excavations of an "Octagon" tomb in ...