Show ls s l I I i ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA N the days laYs when the first Cirt love lo tales I were woven men played on the tho known n world as their stage Their talc stake was as the sovereignty so of oC the I earth or oblivion and death Kingdoms Kingdoms King King- 1 doms were flung away with disregard gard Jard to individual sufferings men of that time knew no fear feal One might believe that love loe would w be forgotten in hi the thc mi midst st of such tre tn tremendous tremendous tre- tre possibilities But Instead of oC banishing love lo instead of allowing the sentiments to die ie through h lack Irick of ot development development development de de- de- de It wis was far otherwise Passion Pas Pas- sion siGn grew to the same gigantic proportion pro pro- portion portions It was in that land lanel of mystery Eg Egypt a A. country of or hot glaring sunlight sunI sunlight sun sun- sun sun- light where people built huge hugo temples temple I where tho the and the pyramids raise themselves out o of the shifting sandy sand and all alt things are massive op oppressive oppressive op- op in their sue size that Cleopatra was born i in tho year 69 B. 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C in the thc cit city i of Alc Alexandria ria Sh She was a daughter daugh augh- ter tel 9 pf Ptolemy and a as was the cu custom with th the royal fan family ily was ma to her brother Ptolemy The household was wag not a happy one quarrel quarrel rd rel followed ell Quarrel until finally Cleopatra W twenty t years er j old L rc r- r ess t I n 1 t ho was banished U by her brother It was s was a fortunate for Cleopatra's future that in th the year aT b before fore she was expelled Julius Cae Caesar ar and Pompey Pompe ompeY had fought tho the famous battle of or Phar- Phar salla In which Pompey Pompe was defeated and had tIed fled to thc shores of Egypt for protection Caesar followed Ptolemy's fato fate was WM sealed scaled when Cleopatra ra radiant radiant radi radi- i- i ant in her young life liCe appeared before Cac Caesar ar and using the power of her fascinations urged her case against her brother brothel Caesar Caer was not the man manto manto manto to h hesitate He seized Alexandria le andria In her name defeated Ptolemy and elevated ele elc- ele- ele rated Cleopatra to the tho throne Cleopatra returned to Rome with Cae Caesar r We know little lIttle- about this thia love lo story lived out in ill the heart of or the brilliant dissolute cit city Without Question question question ques Ques- tion Caesar worshipped this woman from Egypt Egypt Star Star of or the East as she was called At his death she returned I to Egypt oJ I Three years passed The world was In other hands Mark Antony Ant Octar- Octar ius lus a n. nephew and adopted son of ot Julius Julius Ju Ju- lius Ilus Caesar and Lepidus Lopidus had formed armed tine the second triumvirate The known world was divided between three masters masters masters mas mas- one of ot whom Lopidus was a figurehead fig tIE so that it prophesied a a. gb gle glo soon forthcoming between Allton Antony An Au- ton tony and Octavius Octa for the mastery When hon the triumvirate divided the world Antony took the east cast He came cameto cameto to Tarsus leaving his wife wiCo Fulvia at Rome Home When Cleopatra knew that her new master had arrived she or ordered or- or dered the royal barge balt an and traveled up ui the river to meet him Faint perfumes floated around her on h her brow was the sacred emblem of ot Iris and Osiris while her eyes were mYstical mystical cal and bro brooding as fiS those of oC the Sphinx but her full scarlet lips SP spoke Js of cc kisses and starlight nights Anton Antony stood and gazed and she knowing her power raised her hand to Eo take his heart and manhood Into its grasp Now began a It wonderful revel rovel of ot passion pas pM- Ion sion in which Cleopatra's nature was WR stirred nearer to knowing love loyc than It ft over ever had been before All night long thc they drank and feasted while the gods Horus Ra and Thoth gazed down from their granite heights at the haughty Roman general who forgetful forget forget- ful CuI of his world kingdom had laid his laurels and his manhood at the sandal clad dainty feet of this mystic Egyptian Egyptian Egyptian tian queen Then trouble arose at Rome Antony was summoned home Much loth to leave lea he he- heinall finally went to find Fulvia Ia dead and Octavius grown strong In the tIlE hearts of the Roman people So Anton Antony Antony An An- ton tony made macic terms term attempted to allow his reason to rule and married Octavia Octa Octavius' Octavius sister It n was all in vain Cleopatra's fascination reached acro across the seas and brought him back again to Alexandria to the touch of her hands Forgetful of all except the woman beside him he ho divorced Oct Octavia L fa married married mar mar- ned ried Cleopatra bestowing upon her har titles and full powers powers over his king king- I dom From that time all moved moed u The battle to decide the tho mastery of oC the world was fought of off the shores of or Greece at in the year ear 21 1 B. B Chen C C. When hen neither force prevailed and the fate ate of Anton Antony hung in the tho balance balanc Cleopatra who was comman commanding ing the theE E Egyptian ships left the fight tight her entire en en- entire en- en tire Ure fleet following her Yh Why sh she dill did I It the world will never know lenow And Antony Auton An Au- tony ton careless s o of honor lame fame or powen pow pow- er en ordered his hiB ships to put lut about and nd followed his loved loed one The ahe eu end came soon Antony Anton dishonored dis honored la lay d dying of a 1 self inflicted ii wound and commanded his servants sel to carry catT him to Cleopatra He He died in her het arms For the sake of her embraces em eni- 4 braces he ha had mad madly I thrown a worM world away great as alwa always s in his faults as In h his I virt virtues ues Cleopatra lived and when Jus Orta entered the city t she he sine went to him bun as she ha had to two former conqueror but this time she sho ho failed All An her charm charOL all her witchery did le not stir the lie cS of this thi cold calculating man She had lund hadnot hadnot not succeeded and she knew ft It V W With IL clear eyes o she hc realized her fate ate either to be uc ta taken IH n to Rome Home and carried d forthe for forthe the mob to howl and stare talC at in OCtavius OC OC- lus la triumph or 11 to f follow Antony to the dim turn St Stygian world She followed her lover 10 some sa i sUn of the poisonous river a asp p. p by the tho sting Others by in different means WO e e Kno know that lint ha t she far d decked In her hel r royal al robe rob thi this daughter of lC it The rh Nile iI the thU in u of or t O Osiris lri on 11 her brow calm pale t I |