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A sterling silver ring in the shape of a coiled snake, inspired by an original Roman ring found in Alexandria.A gold-platedsterling silver ring in the shape of a coiled snake, inspired by an original Roman ring found in Alexandria. Pina Polo, Francisco (2013), "The Great Seducer: Cleopatra, Queen and Sex Symbol", in Knippschild, Silke; García Morcillo, Marta (eds.), Seduction and Power: Antiquity in the Visual and Performing Arts, London: Bloomsbury Academic, pp.183–197, ISBN 9781441190659. The death of Cleopatra has been depicted in various works of art throughout history. These include the visual, literary, and performance arts, ranging from sculptures and paintings to poetry and plays, as well as modern films. Cleopatra featured prominently in the prose and poetry of ancient Latin literature. While surviving ancient Roman depictions of her death in visual arts are rare, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, and Modern works are numerous. Ancient Greco-Roman sculptures such as the Esquiline Venus and Sleeping Ariadne served as inspirations for later artworks portraying her death, universally involving the snakebite of an asp. Cleopatra's death has evoked themes of eroticism and sexuality in works that include paintings, plays, and films, especially from the Victorian era. Modern works depicting Cleopatra's death include Neoclassical sculpture, Orientalist painting, and cinema. Cleopatra's personal physician Olympos, cited by Plutarch, mentioned neither a cause of death nor an asp bite or Egyptian cobra. [67] [note 7] Strabo, who provides the earliest known historical account, believed that Cleopatra committed suicide either by asp bite or poisonous ointment. [53] [68] [69] [note 8] Plutarch mentions the tale of the asp brought to her in a basket of figs, although he offers other alternatives for her cause of death, such as use of a hollow implement ( Greek: κνηστίς, romanized: knestis), perhaps a hairpin, [54] which she used to scratch open the skin and introduce the toxin. [67] According to Cassius Dio small puncture wounds were found on Cleopatra's arm, but he echoed the claim by Plutarch that nobody knew the true cause of her death. [70] [67] [58] Dio mentioned the claim of the asp and even suggested use of a needle ( Greek: βελόνη, romanized: belone), possibly from a hairpin, which would seem to corroborate Plutarch's account. [70] [67] [58] Other contemporary historians such as Florus and Velleius Paterculus supported the asp bite version. [71] [72] Roman physician Galen mentioned the asp story, [72] but he advances a version where Cleopatra bit her own arm and introduced venom brought in a container. [73] Suetonius relayed the story of the asp but expressed doubt about its validity. [72] Animal service officers “apprehended” the snake at the advice of the Department of Wildlife Resources and transported it to a wildlife facility.

Walker, Susan (2004), The Portland Vase, British Museum Objects in Focus, British Museum Press, ISBN 9780714150222. Octavian then made Egypt a Roman province, with himself as emperor; he later took the name Augustus. In his subsequent memoirs, Octavian/Augustus ensured his version of Cleopatra and her suicide—snake bite and all—would live on for centuries to come.

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Plutarch, translated by Jones 2006, p.187, wrote in vague terms that "Octavian had Caesarion killed later, after Cleopatra's death." Like all rodents, fall and winter are the perfect times when they are seeking warmth, and unfortunately, your home, garage, attic, or basement is the ideal place. When this happens, they are attracted to the rodent’s presence in your home. Despite the name, these guys can actually be found across the whole of North Africa. They reside under the dusty ridges of the Atlas Mountains in Morocco, throughout the shifting dunes of Algeria, and, of course, all the way throughout Egypt itself. Their range also runs southwards into sub-Saharan Africa, though the specimens there tend to be less venomous overall. Saharan horned viper ( Cerastes cerastes) Photo by Pfüderi/Pixabay The decadent Lagids’dynasty was especially interested in drugs and poisons meanwhile Alexandria became a prestigious center of learning and the first medical center of the ancient world. Scholars dedicated to toxicology would research in the famous Museion and the Hellenistic rulers of Alexandria and other kingdoms had court physicians specialized in pharmacology and venoms. As the last member of Ptolemaic Dynasty, Cleopatra VII inherited the throne and also the great inclination of Ptolemies towards medicine and science. In this city toxicological education seems to have had its most systematic development, and for Galen [ 1] “human and prompt executions’ were made in Alexandria with the intervention of cobras”.