The story of Antonio and Cleopatra
Mark Antony, a member of the Triumvirate of Rome with Octavius Caesar and Amelius Lepidus, neglected his military duties after occupying the Queen of Egypt, Cleopatra, as he ignored Rome's national problems, including the fact that his wife, Floria, revolted against Octavius and then died.
Octavius invited Antony to return from Alexandria to Rome to help him against the Pompeii, Menecrates and Minas, three pirates in the Mediterranean with a poor reputation, and in Alexandria Cleopatra pleads with Antonio not to go, and considers that in this way he proves his love for her, but in the end he leaves.
Back in Rome, Agrippa
returns the idea that Antony should marry Octavius Caesar's sister, Octavia, in order to strengthen relations between the two men, one of the leaders of Antony and called Anoparps. Nevertheless, he knows that Octavia will never please him after Cleopatra, and in a famous phrase describing the charm and beauty of Cleopatra In terms such as "Age cannot wither its beauty."
A fortune teller for Antonio predicts that he will lose if Octavius fights.
In Egypt, Cleopatra learned about the marriage of Antonio and expected her outrage at the messenger who sent her the message, but she is happy when she learns of Octavia's tearful descriptions from her retinue.
In one of the confrontations, the tripartite government bargains with Bombay, and offers him a truce where they can celebrate Sardinia and Sicily, but he must help them rid the sea of the pirates and send them a heavy tax, and after great hesitation, Bombay agrees. The killing of the three leaders will become the leader of Rome, but he refuses to do so and finds that this act is against honor, but Octavis and Lapidus soon breaks the armistice and wages a war on Bombay, this war was against the will of Antony, who raged his anger.
Antony returns to Egypt and crowns himself with Cleopatra as the kings of Egypt, and the eastern third of the empire of Rome, where this province was Antonio's share of the triumvirate. He accused Octavius of not giving him a sufficient share of the land of Bombay and was angry because Lepidus "who had been imprisoned by Octavius" left Imprisonment from the Triumvirate, Octavius agreed to his requests, but on the other hand he was not pleased with what Antony did.
Antoniou prepared to fight Octavius, Anubarps his assistant urges him to fight on land, where he prevails, instead of fighting the seas as Octavius's fleet is stronger, but Antony refuses since Octavius challenges him to fight him at sea, Cleopatra orders her fleet to be at Antony's signal, however. In the midst of the battle, Cleopatra's fleet Ballston is a ship, and Antonio follows her. He leaves his army to be defeated, and shame pursues him with what he did to him the love of Cleoparta. "
Octavius sends his messenger to Cleopatra to urge her to surrender Antony and join his side, hesitating and messing with the messenger, Antony enters and denounces what she did, and sends the messenger to flogging, and in the end forgives Cleopatra, and vows to fight another battle for her, but this time on dry land.
On the evening of the battle, Antony's soldiers hear strange miraculous sounds, as they interpreted it as the god Hercules stepping down from the protection of Antony. Further, the leader of Antioch, who had destroyed him for a long time, deserted him and went to the side of Octavius, in addition to his confiscation of the things of Anubarps, which he did not take with him when going to Octavius, Antony commands the things to go to Anubarbes again, and Anorababs dies for the generosity of his master, is ashamed of his disloyalty, and dies with a broken heart.
The battle proceeds in favor of Antony as it set off from dry land, until Octavius turns it over to a naval conflict again, and Antony loses when Cleopatra's fleet joins Octavius and besieges him. Cleopart denounces "This foolish Egyptian deceived me!" Determined to kill her for her betrayal, Cleopatra decides that the only way to regain his love again is to send him a message indicating that she will commit suicide. To die with his name on her lips, she locks herself in place and waits for Antonio to return.
But her plan fails, and instead of returning to her in regret, Antonio decides that his life is not worth it, so he orders one of his assistants "Ross" to bring him a sword, but Aros did not dare to do this and kill himself, Antonio admires his courage and tries to do the same thing but fails and all he has gained is A deep wound, Antonio learns that Cleopatra is still alive, so he goes to her in the place of her isolation and dies in her cultivation.
Octavius goes to Cleopatra and tries to persuade her to surrender, but she angrily refuses. Cleopatra is betrayed and detained by the Romans.
Cleopatra decides to commit suicide using the poison of the publisher's snake, and she dies quietly, as she imagines her meeting with Antonio in the afterlife, and her servants Ayres and Sharmian commit suicide here in the same way, Octavius discovers suicide and shows troubled feelings, the death of Antony and Cleopatra leaves him to be the first Roman emperor, "August Caesar", But he feels some sympathy for them as he says, "She will be buried next to her beloved Antonio, there is no grave on the ground that will surround these two, a wonderful couple," and he orders that it be a popular military funeral.
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