Mark Antony and Cleopatra the Great. Marcus Antonius, 83-30 BC, Roman politician and general. Cleopatra VII Philopator, 69-30 BC, last queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt. Copperplate engraving by Pieter Bodart (1676-1712) from Henricus Spoor’s Deorum et Heroum, Virorum et Mulierum Illustrium Imagines Antiquae Illustatae, Gods and Heroes, Men and Women, Illustrated with Antique Images, Petrum, Amsterdam, 1715. First published as Favissæ utriusque antiquitatis tam Romanæ quam Græcæ in 1707. Henricus Spoor was a Dutch physician, classical scholar, poet and writer, fl. 1694-1716.


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