Read the Cleopatra Ode by Horace. Her suicide is portrayed favorably. Injecting modern culture into history is likely to a weak analysis. Romans admired the strength of someone who chose suicide over being killed, men and women. It was seen as the right of an aristocratic person to do so.
Read the Cleopatra Ode by Horace. Her suicide is portrayed favorably. Injecting modern culture into history is likely to a weak analysis. Romans admired the strength of someone who chose suicide over being killed, men and women. It was seen as the right of an aristocratic person to do so.