Cleopatra: The Queen of Blood and Seduction

Julius Caesar led his famous legions as they trampled and conquered the known world from Canopus to the Thames, before finally succumbing to her feminine charms. Then Marc Antony gave up an empire, and his own honor to follow her to his own destruction. The Egyptian temptress was eventually captured, and borough to stand before Octavius, the new Emperor of Rome. There Cleopatra found herself measured by the cold eye of her captor, and rejected.
This time her feminine charms finally failed her. When the Queen discovered that Octavius intended to parade her through the streets of Rome in chains, she decided that she would rather die than suffer that type of humiliation. After testing various poisons on dozens of poor souls, she selects the nearly painless death from an asp bite to spare her the indignities that Octavius planned to inflict on her.