Andrew Schulz

Augustus was going to have Cleopatra and Mark Antony assassinated.

Gotcha, gotcha.

And at least that's what Cleopatra and Mark Antony suspected.

And so ultimately Cleopatra and Mark Antony

they commit suicide because they know what's what's what's going to happen to them and so they have this romeo juliet story get the fuck out of here yeah so all of a sudden and the way they kill themselves is crazy wow yeah um yes contested whether or not it really give me the fun version yeah yeah so so the romantic story is um

That is that Mark Antony is told, I believe he's told that Cleopatra has committed suicide and he's so heartbroken by that, that he runs a sword through his stomach.

But then his messengers go tell Cleopatra that he stabbed himself.

So Cleopatra sends her messengers to drag him to her quarters.

And so he gets pulled up onto her bed, and she's basically holding him as he's dying in her arms, bleeding all over her bed.

You can just imagine this.

And she's so distraught, and she knows what's going to happen.

She can't run.

She can't do anything.

And so the story is she has an asp, which is like a very venomous...

Egyptian snake bites her on the wrist and then she dies.

Probably not how she actually killed herself, but they killed themselves in the presence of each other and died together, like Romeo and Juliet.

By a viper, like, chewing on your neck.

Romeo and Juliet is like 1,500 years later.

And so Augustus knew this whole time that...

If I praise myself too much for the things that I've accomplished, if I rule with too much of an iron fist, I'm going to get my head cut off someday.