Cleopatra pt2
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- A few years later the two met again. Antony obtains funds from her for his long delayed military campaign against the Kingdom of Parthia. After a humiliating defeat in Parthia, Antony publicly rejected his wife Octavia's efforts to try and re-join him and instead chose to re-join Cleopatra in Egypt. This decision began a war of propaganda between him and his outraged wife. She claimed that Antony was completely under Cleopatra's control and that he would abandon Rome to find a new capital in Egypt. In 32 B.C the Roman Senate stripped of all his titles and Octavia declared war on Cleopatra.
- Octavia's forces managed to soundly defeated those of Antony and Cleopatra during the battle of Actium. Cleopatra's ships left the battle and headed back to Egypt. Antony soon broke away and managed to follow her with a few ships. Antony heard a rumor that Cleopatra had committed suicide. Antony fell onto his sword. He died just as the news had arrived that the news was false.
- After Antony was buried Cleopatra met up with Octavia and locked herself inside her chamber with two other female servants. It is unclear of how she actually died but their is a theory that she used a poisonous snake and killed herself at the age of 39. Her body was buried with Antony's which left Octavia to celebrate his conquest of Egypt and his consolidation of power in Rome
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