12-08-2004, 11:14 PM
Quote:</em></strong><hr>wouldn't it be better for Octavian to simply parade her in the triumph anyway? That would only make him more popular in the eyes of the Romans<hr><br>
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I would think so too.<br>
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For that reason, I think she committed suicide. I know they ruled out the cobra as the means of her suicide, but she had access to products from as far away as China. They never found a snake in her chamber, so who knows what she used.<br>
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And anyway, we know Octavian was a murderer. He killed Caesarion, so I wouldn't put it passed him. I just doubt that he did it, because I don't see the advantage of doing it like that.<br>
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The program kept making a big deal of Plutarch's admission of not knowing exactly how she died. Well, does any historian know anything ? He wrote several decades after her death and he was able to record only hearsay. Every historian has gaps in his knowledge of the past.<br>
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-Theo <p></p><i></i>
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I would think so too.<br>
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For that reason, I think she committed suicide. I know they ruled out the cobra as the means of her suicide, but she had access to products from as far away as China. They never found a snake in her chamber, so who knows what she used.<br>
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And anyway, we know Octavian was a murderer. He killed Caesarion, so I wouldn't put it passed him. I just doubt that he did it, because I don't see the advantage of doing it like that.<br>
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The program kept making a big deal of Plutarch's admission of not knowing exactly how she died. Well, does any historian know anything ? He wrote several decades after her death and he was able to record only hearsay. Every historian has gaps in his knowledge of the past.<br>
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-Theo <p></p><i></i>
Jaime
