Antony and Cleopatra fled back to Alexandria but, within a year, the city was besieged by Roman soldiers. Rather than be captured and taken to Rome as prisoners, the two lovers committed suicide.

Cleopatra was not just a famed Greek queen of Ancient Egypt, but she also even created her own secret drinking club.

Cleopatra was intent on reviving her empire, not by thwarting the growing power of the Romans but by making herself useful to them, supplying them with ships and grain, ...

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Cleopatra is not only a supercolossal eye-filler (the unprecedented budget shows in the physical opulence throughout), but it is also a remarkably literate cinematic recreation of an historic epoch.

One of the few women who ruled ancient Egypt, Cleopatra VII was destined to be the last of her dynasty. But while she's often thought to be a great beauty who seduced Julius Caesar and Mark Antony ...