On this day in 30 BC Cleopatra committed suicide. Cleopatra's response to losing Antony and Egypt to Rome was apparently well-researched: hoping for a painless death, she caused more than one unfortunate to be force-fed this or that drug or snake while she watched. As told in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, it was the Roman idea of entertainment that was to blame in the first place:
Nay, 'tis most certain, Iras: saucy lectors ... FULL STORY »
