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Mark Antony's death

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annied | 21:30 Sun 31st Oct 2004 | History
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How did Mark Antony die and where?  Did he committ suicide during the battle at Actium or was it later back in Alexandria with Cleopatra?
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Are you talking historically or in the Shakespeare play? I don't know the historic answer, but in the play, it's a bit more complicated. He stabs himself after the battle but doesn't die instantly: he's carried to Cleopatra's hiding place to die there.
A very quick Google search on "Actium" (without inverted commas) produced this site, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Actium whose historical notes say that Antony and Cleopatra escaped from the battle, and both committed suicide a year later.
Yes. Plutarch says that 13 years after the murder of Caesar,  Antony and Cleopatra were dead by their own hands. The location was a palace believed to be on the present day waterfront of Alexandria.

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