Cleopatra
As part of the team presentation, the members of my group and I each read a chapter of Cleopatra by Ludwig. We were each responsible for summarizing our respective sections, and we created a collaboration of all the summaries, which was presented before the class. The section that will be further summarized is the final chapter of the book, the conclusion to Cleopatra's life. This final chapter depicts the final two years of Cleopatra's life and all the trials and tribulations that she endured. It deems her as a brave woman of her time with great instincts as she was about to face her final destiny. Since Cleopatra hesitated to take sides in the civil war following her beloved Caesar's death, Mark Antony summoned her to meet with him to explain her conduct. The Roman soon fell victim to her charms and returned with her to Egypt. After living with h
At the naval battle of Actium, believing Antony's defeat to be inevitable, she withdrew her fleet from Action and fled to Alexandria. On the approach of Octavian, Antony, deceived by a false report of the queen's death, fell by his own hand. Cleopatra made some attempts to bring Octavian under her charms, but failing in this and hearing that he intended to exhibit her in his triumph at Rome, she killed herself by poison. Octavian put Caesarion, her son by Caesar, to death. This book is not recommended as a research source, because there is no proof of it having factual content. It was written in 1937, and was not a university publication. The book, however informative it may be, is quite misleading. The reason for this is that the author had no footnotes, nor a bibliography to back up any of his points of view or any of his arguments. The narrative was third person, and was from a viewpoint of the 1930's. It is typical
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