Silvia Pizarro McCants

This is the third in our series of truths. The official history tells us that after Mark Antony’s death, a heartbroken Cleopatra, faced with the humiliation of being paraded in Octavian’s triumph, committed suicide. The story of the asp is a famous, romantic, and utterly false detail designed

This is the third in our series of truths. The official history tells us that after Mark Antony’s death, a heartbroken Cleopatra, faced with the humiliation of being paraded in Octavian’s triumph, committed suicide. The story of the asp is a famous, romantic, and utterly false detail designed

This is the second in our series of truths. The first article revealed the how of Mark Antony’s end: he was not defeated by a sword, but by a lie. Now, we delve deeper into the what. We will explore the precise medical and physiological mechanism that caused his

This is the second in our series of truths. The first article revealed the how of Mark Antony’s end: he was not defeated by a sword, but by a lie. Now, we delve deeper into the what. We will explore the precise medical and physiological mechanism that caused his

This is the first in a series of truths. For centuries, the story of Mark Antony and Cleopatra has been told as a cautionary tale of passion clouding judgment, a romance that led two great leaders to ruin. It is a story written by the victor, a man named Octavian,

This is the first in a series of truths. For centuries, the story of Mark Antony and Cleopatra has been told as a cautionary tale of passion clouding judgment, a romance that led two great leaders to ruin. It is a story written by the victor, a man named Octavian,