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Cleopatra never held an asp to her chest or to any other part of her body. That is just a myth about how she killed herself. She did commit suicide, but how she did it is unknown. The only thing known, is that snakebite was not the cause of her death.
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Did the asp bite Cleopatra on her breast?
yes
Did Cleopatra enter as a gladiator?
No. She poisoned herself with an asp.
Who ruled Egypt from 69 BC until 30 BC when she was bitten by a asp?
Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator, commonly known as just Cleopatra or Cleopatra VII.
Why did Cleopatra choose the asp as method to end her life?
Queen Cleopatra famously forced servants to commit suicide by means of a strychnine trees fruit seeds, which contain lethal levels of strychnine and brucine, in order to determine if it would be the best means for her own suicide. Upon seeing their agony (which included painful vomiting, facial contortions and convulsions) she opted for the apparently less horrific choice of the asp. (The asp was actually an ancient term for any number of poisonous snakes, but experts think it was probably the cobra that Cleopatra chose to end her life.)While it is true that Cleopatra did force slaves and prisoners of war to take various poisons to test their effects, she never would have chosen snakebite as a means of offing herself. The effects of a cobra/snake bite are in many cases worse than the strychnine poisons and lingering. Also remember that Cleopatra died quickly with a full stomach. It is thought that she killed herself by a combination of three poisons. The "death by an asp" is a myth, very conveniently perpetrated by Octavian himself.
How did Mark Antony and Cleopatra really die?
Octavian told a roomer to Marc Antony that Cleopatra died and then Marc Antony stabbed himself in the stomach with a sword and died.Then Cleopatra heard a bout his death and got biten by an asp (poisonus snake).
How did Queen Cleopatra died?
She died by letting an asp (very poisonous snake) bite her in the chest.
How did queen Cleopatra die?
She took an asp snake and put it above her chest and Light it bight away.....:(
Cleopatra is to ASP as Julius Caesar to?
Cleopatra is to asp as Julius Caesar is to knife?
What is Cleopatra's poor venomous fool?
asp asp
What was the crown called that Cleopatra wore?
I believe it is called an asp. The asp was represented on the crown of all Pharaohs, Cleopatra included. However the crown itself was called a uraeus. It had at least one asp on it. Cleopatra's crown had three.
Did Cleopatra die of an asp bite?
no.
What type was Cleopatra's snake?
Asp
Who was Cleopatra's slayer?
asp or snake
Snake that killed Cleopatra?
The snake that was supposed to have been used for Cleopatra's suicide was the asp, or Egyptian cobra. But don't you believe it. There are many reasons why this was impossible. It is only a myth.
Did the asp bite Cleopatra on her breast?
yes
Who was cleo's slayer?
There are three answers to this question: cleo, cleopatra and asp. Cleopatra killed herself by means of an asp bite on August 12, 30 BC.
What kind of snake bit Cleopatra?
She was supposedly bitten on the breast by an asp
