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According to Theophile Gautier ," Cleopatra is a person to be wondered at (…) whom dreamers find always at the end of their dreams." The story of Cleopatra’s life has been told in many different forms. Cleopatra in all forms was a woman of mystery, power, sin, and eroticism. When you think of the name Cleopatra what comes to mind? Many people may think that she was a saint for not just reason and that she …

…not a princess fit to rule by his side. She smiled as he spoke to her, promised that she would acquiesce in his wishes, and made up her mid to kill herself with an asp than to follow the orders of Octavian (19). She managed to have the snake smuggled into her apartment with a basket of fruit. In 30 BC the world was to be forever changed, for the rule of a great queen was diminished.