Cleopatra died on Aug 12,30 B.C. but which of these cobras is belived to have helped her to commit suicide?

Question

1/Naja Naja
2/Naja NIvea
3/Naja Haje
4/Naja naja Oxiana
5/Naja naja kauthia
6/Boulengerina annulata stormsi
7/Ophiophagus hannah

Answer 1

According to Plutarch Cleopatra was bitten by an "aspis"(Greek meaning Shield).
The aspis snake or asp was in antiquity a venomous snake of Egypt from the Nile delta region and generally assumed to refer to the Egyptian cobra (because cobra's head looks like an "aspis" shield, but a wide array of other snakes were called asps. Today the European asp, Vipera aspis, is the only snake correctly referred to as an asp.
We are not quite sure if the snake was an Egyptian cobra or a Vipera Aspis.

Answer 2

As I remember in World History, which was a decade ago, it was an asp or an adder; I think it was the cobra snake native to Egypt the Naja Haje. So I would choose 3/ Naja Haje.

Answer 3

Roman sources tell us it was a cobra. Personally, I think they mean a king cobra. In Egypt Cleopatra was identified as the living reincarnation of Isis, a mother goddess. The king cobra was the companion of Isis, and protector of the Pharaohs. You can see the cobra goddess Wajet, on top of the nemis headdress worn by the pharaohs. So I think, if Cleopatra chose this way to die, she would have died by this important snake. I do not believe she committed suicide, though. Despite popular belief, Cleopatra was an intelligent and good ruler. The people of Egypt loved her. After the Roman invasion Egyptian priests would say that she was the wisest woman who ever lived. The image of Cleopatra which modern-day people have is all because of Roman propaganda. Octavian despised Cleopatra and would have loved to humiliate her in the streets of Rome, but he was smart too. He knew he could not let her get away, so I believed he killed her. No Ptolemy ever killed themselves, and Cleopatra would have never just given up.

Answer 4

An asp. I don't know the scientific name for it, and I'm too lazy to look it up. ;-)

Oh well, got bored. It's #3.

Oh, and an asp is a member of the cobra family. For extra brownie points. Do I pass, teach?

Answer 5

she was not bitten by a cobra;but an asp!!!it had been tested on a slave to see if it was "fast and painless" and instantaneous!!!some bites and neruotoxins are very painful and coagulate the entire bloodstream throughout the body!!!causing massive strokes like a series of anuerisms choking off the supply of blood to the brain and organs!!!many slaves gave their lives in tests to secure the "proper" toxin for the queen!!!!spasms and contortions,writhing and spinal contraction and such would probablly been avoided!!!!

Answer 6

She's killed by an asp...(an Egyptian cobra) but I'm just not sure of the scientific name...