Did Mark Antony really love Cleopatra?

Mark Antony is a well-known Roman who gained power of Rome after Caesar was murdered on the Ides of March in 44 BC. Even though there were about 60 senators who assassinated Julius Caesar, it would have been expected that Rome would have been happier. However, that was not the case. When Mark Antony gained power of Rome, he became friends with other generals including Octavian, Marcus Aemilius and Lepidus.

Then Mark Antony became friendly with Cleopatra who ruled Egypt. Mark Antony and Cleopatra tried to rule both Rome and Egypt which proved difficult. Senators started to go against this couple and believed they were too power-hungry. Over time, they became lovers and they killed themselves when they realized that trouble was going to happen.

Who can really be in the heart and mind of another? We can only judge by a man's behaviour, his acts, how far his passion for a woman goes. Mark Anthony was a real person but has inspire so many myths and is known to many as a character in the Shakespearean play. Shakespeare used received wisdom for his plots. He was not an academic historiean Like Romeo and Juliet, Mark Anthony and Cleopatra personify true love for the romantics. among us. The reality was that Cleopatra's enormous intelligence and political awareness made her seduce both powerful leaders: Caesar and then Mark Anthony.

She decked her boat with flowers and herself as a goddess at her first meeting with Mark Anthony. As an educated, well born man himself, he will have appreciated Cleopatra's linguistic abilities (9 languages) her reportedly charming voice and physical beauty. Did he really love her? He married her, but she was only the fourth of five wives. It will have been a powerful infatuation, no doubt, but what is the evidence of a lasting love?