cleopatras legacy lives on in an opera
yet most of the major german composers of the time including handel himself as well as graun hasse and later gluck chose to write most of their operas in foreign languages especially italian
another painting from pompeii dated to the early 1st century ad and located in the house of giuseppe ii contains a possible depiction of cleopatra with her son caesarion both wearing royal diadems while she reclines and consumes poison in an act of suicide