What did Cleopatra do to influence Antony?
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- Created on: 16-06-13 16:24
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- What did Cleopatra do to influence Antony?
- Treated him with contempt and made fun of him
- Sailed up the Cydnus river in a golden barge dressed like Aphrodite whilst Cupids fanned her
- So Antony would send her a dinner invitation only for her to decline and send her own
- Sailed up the Cydnus river in a golden barge dressed like Aphrodite whilst Cupids fanned her
- Dressed her best when first meeting him at Cilicia
- When he was going to invade Syria, she made him go to Alexandria instead
- So Fulvia had to wage war on his behalf
- He started war too early as he was eager to get back to her
- Attached a sea bass to his fishing rod to make him think he had caught a fish
- Pretended to give money to his soldiers but it was his own money
- 'pretended to love him'
- Pretended to be sick and stopped eating so he would be worried about her and not go to war
- Got her flatterers to tell Antony that Octavia only married him for politics and to have the name of wife
- Whilst she was with him for love and couldn't baare to be without him
- She wanted Octavian and Antony to fall out
- She didn't want Antony walking away from a war that she had contributed so much too
- Got Antony to throw Octavia out of her house
- Fled from Actium which lead to Antony following her and deserting his own army
- Removed any useful qualities he had
- he as under a spell/ drug
- Sent him mad with the love
- 'captued by her
- Treated him with contempt and made fun of him
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