Cleopatra is reputed to have killed herself because of the death of whom?
Death of Cleopatra as a Macedonian Greek. Lewis' Neoclassical sculpture offers a post-mortem view of Cleopatra dressed in Egyptian regalia and sitting on her throne, which is decorated with two sphinx heads that represent the twins she bore with Mark Antony: Alexander Helios and Cleopatra Selene II. An 1880 , now found in Lille, France, was once thought to be a work by Albert Darcq, but restoration and cleaning of the sculpture revealed the signature of Charles Gauthier, to whom the work is now attributed. The 1874 painting "Death of Cleopatra" by Jean-André Rixens depicts a dead Cleopatra with very light skin, accompanied
Death of Cleopatra of multiple asps, as well as the character of Charmion who killed herself by asp bite after Cleopatra. In modern literature, Ted Hughes' poem "Cleopatra to the Asp" (1960) creates a monologue of Cleopatra speaking to the asp that is about to kill her. During the Victorian era, plays such as "Cléopâtre" (1890) by Victorien Sardou became popular, although audiences were generally shocked by the emotional intensity of stage actress Sarah Bernhardt's depiction of Cleopatra reacting to Antony's suicide. In opera, Samuel Barber's "Antony and Cleopatra", first performed in 1966 and based on Shakespeare's play, Cleopatra recounts a dream that