2006-08-24 06:08:18 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
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.
2006-08-24 06:10:52 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Cleopatra died from the poison of an asp that she used on herself. It is not certain if she used a live asp or just the poison. Either way she killed herself to avoid being captured by Romans and being made a slave.
2006-08-24 08:57:06 · answer #2 · answered by Juniper 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In ancient times she commited a suicide, she was beaten by a poisonus snake.
In modern times Cleopatra is being killed by the slavic propaganda.
2006-08-24 12:05:54 · answer #3 · answered by Spartan 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Not sure but some say that she committed suicide by allowing a cobra to bite her.
2006-08-24 06:24:52 · answer #4 · answered by chrstnwrtr 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well, according to ancient history, a poisonous little
snake called an "asp." that she held up to her busom,
some say a vein in her arm, anyway thats how she
has supposed to have died.
2006-08-24 06:12:10 · answer #5 · answered by Jaymagiclady 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Herself.
She supposedly used some poor snake she prodded into biting her. But definitely, herself.
2006-08-24 06:23:25 · answer #6 · answered by graytrees 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No one.
She used a Asp (a poisonous snake) to poison herself.
It was suicide.
2006-08-24 06:11:13 · answer #7 · answered by Anria A 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is believed that she committed suicide-a snake bite.
2006-08-24 06:25:24 · answer #8 · answered by openpsychy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the same guy that killed abbraham lincon.
2006-08-24 06:57:09 · answer #9 · answered by BestGuitaristEver! 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
she killed herself.
2006-08-24 07:34:58 · answer #10 · answered by IRI 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋