@article{ref1,
title="[The death of Cleopatra]",
journal="Histoire des Sciences Médicales",
year="2009",
author="Guillemain, Bernard",
volume="43",
number="4",
pages="369-373",
abstract="The image of a queen bitten by a snake is controversial and the facts, such as the swiftness of her death and her servants, and scientific experiments are in favour of a deadly poisoning. The author reminds that in the ancient texts the snake had sacred virtues and it was a symbolic image to embellish the suicide of the one who was sentenced to death by the Romans. Octaves set up the myth of a fatal bite which became an iconographic image for the cinema.<p /><p>Language: fr</p>",
language="fr",
issn="0440-8888",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}