A painting of Antony and Cleopatra by Lawrence Alma-Tadema in 1885From Live Science:
Nothing celebrates Valentine's Day quite like a good love story. And by good, we mean tragic, of course.
Though Shakespeare's plays are littered with doomed lovers — unrequited passion and death makes for good reading, apparently — couples equally as star-crossed can be found in the world's history books.
These five tragic historical tales from the ancient to more recent past are as sad as anything that has ever been conjured up in fiction:
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