when shakespeare wrote antony and cleopatra, he drew on plutarch’s lives, the work of the greek historian plutarch. in plutarch’s account, the wounded antony commands a secretary of his, diomedes, to take him to cleopatra’s tomb, where cleopatra is hiding with two maids. cleopatra will not open the gates, but she and her maids pull the wounded antony up using chains. cleopatra dries the blood from antony’s face and calls him her lord and emperor. drag each of the following elements of antony and cleopatra's story into the correct box to show its source. iv. cleopatra’s deep despair over antony’s death added to borrowed from plutarch