Sundry Sunday
(very late edition, sorry!)
Some funny vocab again this week,
A cortège is a procession of people or attendants. Sometimes it also refers to a funeral procession.
How far is a league really? (Personally, I had no idea.) Apparently, it's 3 miles, or about 4.8km.
Cleopatra and the asps at her bosom
An eye-catching line. There's some debate over Cleopatra's cause/method of death. Sources more contemporary state she poisoned herself (either of her own will or under duress of a political rival). There's some theories that she was murdered. So, if there were asps, who knows if they were at her bosom. It makes for good eroticized art, though. I'll include some of my favourites here. Cleopatra is supposedly buried alongside Mark Antony, but their tomb hasn't been located. There's been some buzz lately about new and better estimations about it's location, there's a dig ongoing, but we'll just have to wait and see.