Who was that Egyptian queen who died when she was bitten on the a$ by a fig?

Question

I don’t know how the fig bit her @$$. I think she must have sat on it.

Answer 1

lol someone needs to go back to school dont they? yes it was cleopatra, all though how did nephratiti die?

Answer 2

Drat it, I told Cleo, over and over, to purchase a new bra.  Would she listen?  No way.(Very difficult to sit on that part of the anatomy, Llorti.)

Now that I've had my laugh for the day...it's off to work...

Answer 3

You still shooting in that barrel then? It must be carnage.

It seems nobody has FIGured this one out yet.

Answer 4

I'm not even going to start on what's wrong with that statement.

Answer 5

I believe that her name was maybe Cleo Patrick....or something along those lines....but the version that I heard was that she was bitten on the fig by an a$$.  Just another example of how vicious rumors can get started.

Answer 6

It was Cleopatra. She was bitten by an asp (a poisonous snake) lurking in a basket of figs. Some people assume that this was suicide which she arranged with her servants.

Answer 7

Figs BITE???

Holy h**l.

Next thing you will tell us all apples nibble.

Answer 8

A fig is a fruit.

Answer 9

Cleopatra:

The ancient sources, particularly the Roman ones, are in general agreement that Cleopatra poisoned herself by inducing an asp to bite her. The oldest source is Strabo, who was alive at the time of the event, and might even have been in Alexandria. He says that there are two stories: that she applied a toxic ointment, or that she was bitten by an asp.

Answer 10

The only egyptian queen i can think of that died by being bitten was Cleopatra and by an asp (snake)

Answer 11

wasn't it figgilardars, a kin to neffertitti and tootunboobi

Answer 12

A fig is a fruit and therefore cannot bite anyone. She was bitten by an ASP (a venomous snake)

The Queen was Cleopatra, and rumour has it her death was suicide, she deliberately clasped the snake to her.

Answer 13

None did. There are stories that Cleopatra committed suicide by being bitten by an asp hidden in a container of fruit, but that is questioned by scholars. It's much more likely that Octavian had her executed, along with Caesarion, her son by Julius Caesar who would be a rival for becoming ruler of Rome if he was allowed to grow up.

Answer 14

That's probably Cleopatra. According to legend, she killed herself to avoid being taken to Rome as a prisoner: She had her servants bring her a large bowl of figs and inside was hidden an asp (figs helped hide the snake, the Romans were afraid she might kill herself, they wanted to parade the her in Rome). She let the asp bite her on the breast.

As to a queen dying cos she sat on a fig, it doesn't make much sense. Maybe the fig died cos the queen sat on it :)