Uncovering the Historical Lie About Cleopatra's Suicide

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It was so spectacular the arrival in the port of Cleopatra VII to meet Marco Antonio , that Plutarco picked her up with joy in his chronicles: «Her galley wore aft of gold, purple candles stretched to the wind and oars with silver shovels. She was sitting under a gold canopy, adorned as Venus is painted, perfumed with exquisite aromas.» And so the last pharaoh of Egypt, like a muse of dramatism and eroticism, has passed into history. «Although m…