My classical education is severely lacking It is not a happy love story.
"Mark Antony died in 30 BCE. After Octavian had defeated him and Cleopatra in the battle of Actium, they fled back to Alexandria, followed by Octavian. Affter a non-battle in which Antony's fleet and army defected to Octavian, Antony attempted suicide, and managed to botch it. He was carried to Cleopatra's mausoleum where she had shut herself up in, and there died in her arms. After a couple of weeks of unsuccessful negotiation with Octavian, rather than be taken alive and exhibited in a triumph in Rome, she also suicided.
