篇一：名人故事：国外名人童年故事
xt">希拉里：有领导能力的小姑娘伶牙俐齿？勇敢智慧？咄咄逼人？人们对希拉里似乎总是褒贬不一，但有一点你无法否认，她绝对是世界第一流的女政治家。希拉里丝毫不比老公克林顿逊色，她不仅从小成绩优秀，出类拔萃，还表现出了极强的领导和社交能力。
希拉里出生于芝加哥的一个中产阶级家庭。4岁时的一件事锻炼了小希拉里坚强的意志和决断力。当时，社区中有个霸道的小女孩总是欺负希拉里，希拉里很害怕，泪流满面地向母亲诉苦。母亲告诉希拉里，若遭到欺负，就一定要毫不畏惧地还击。小希拉里的确这样做了。此后，希拉里天赋的领导才能日渐显露，她身旁很快聚集了一大帮孩子。
贝克汉姆：从赌局中领悟父亲的良苦用心
有谁统计过，贝克汉姆在球场上到底吸引过多少人的目光？每当这位世界顶级球星的身影出现在球场，无数的尖叫声立刻响遍全场，相机快门也闪个不停。小贝从3岁就开始踢球，尽管那时还是玩球多于练球，但父亲一直苦心培训他，顽皮的他渐渐奠定了对足球事业的热爱。
上小学时，小贝跟父亲之间甚至还约定了一个常规赌局：如果小贝能站在禁区边不助跑射门，每次把球踢中门柱，就能从父亲那儿赚到50个便士。总是赢到零花钱的小贝很开心，直到长大成人后他才明白了父亲的良苦用心。
曼德拉：从小就追求正义和理想
曼德拉是南非第一位黑人总统，他同南非种族隔离制度进行了几十年不屈不挠的斗争，赢得了全世界人的支持和喝彩。因此，有人说，曼德拉已经成为一个时代的象征。曼德拉的反抗精神、对正义和理想的追求在童年时期就已初露端倪。曼德拉出生在一个小村庄，9岁那年父亲就去世了。从小曼德拉就经常目睹当地大酋长在解决部落争端过程中被白人政府的法律所约束，他逐渐萌发了寻求正义和平等的理想。年纪更大一些后，他多次领导同学抗议学校的白人法规，甚至因领导学生运动而被除名。在一次次的斗争中，曼德拉逐渐立下志愿：要为南非的每一个黑人寻求真正的公正。
莫扎特：一个天资聪慧的神童
莫扎特被公认为音乐史上的神童，他很早就显露出了在音乐方面的非凡天赋和卓绝才能。从莫扎特的童年中，你能看到一个孩子对待音乐的积极心态，对艺术事
业的执着追求。虽然不能人人皆为天才，但对广大孩子来说，神童莫扎特绝对是具有传奇色彩、又值得学习的好榜样。
小时候，莫扎特常常走到钢琴前面，按着琴键细听，并努力弹出他曾经听到过的音乐。一次，莫扎特的父亲和朋友一起回家，看到4岁的莫扎特正坐在桌旁写东西。父亲问他在干什么，莫扎特说他正在写钢琴协奏曲。父亲把五线谱纸拿过来一看，激动得流出了眼泪，他对朋友说：你看，他写的这些又正确又富有意义啊！天资加上勤奋和用心，这就是神童莫扎特！
卡莉·菲奥里纳：从母亲那里受益匪浅
惠普前任女掌门卡莉。菲奥里纳曾是男性主导的硅谷中最亮丽的一道风景。精明强干、坚忍不拔的卡莉曾两度荣登《财富》最有权威的女企业家榜首，吸引了全世界的目光。卡莉从小就受母亲影响，从母亲那里学到了坚强、博学和热爱生活，并受益一生。
卡莉出生于美国得州一个带有欧洲血统的家庭。父亲是联邦法院的法官，母亲则是一位艺术家。在童年的卡莉心中，母亲一直是她最崇敬的人。母亲热爱生活，教卡莉做人的道理，使卡莉的潜能得到最大的发挥。卡莉童年时代随父母游历了不少国家，不仅开拓了眼界，更培养了思考问题的广度和深度，这对她成为一个有勇气、有魄力、自信并热爱生活的人也不无影响。
篇二：英语写作西方名人例子
">? Nelson MandelaMandela, the South African black political leader and former president, was awarded 1993 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to antiracism and antiapartheid. Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. Since his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century of imprisonment, Mandela has been at the centre of the most compelling and inspiring political drama in the world. As president of the African National Congress and head of South Africa's antiapartheid movement, he was instrumental in moving the nation toward multiracial
government and majority rule. He is revered everywhere as a vital force in the fight for human rights and racial equality. (138)
? Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi was the pre-eminent political and spiritual leader of India during the Indian independence movement. He was the pioneer of the resistance to tyranny through mass civil disobedience, firmly founded upon total non-violence—which led India to independence and has inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. He is officially honored in India as the Father of the Nation. After assuming leadership of the Indian National Congress in 1921, Gandhi led nationwide campaigns to ease poverty, expand women's rights, build religious and ethnic amity, and increase economic self-reliance. Above all, he aimed to achieve the
independence of India from foreign domination. Later he campaigned against the British to Quit India. Gandhi spent a number of years in jail in both South Africa and India. (128)
Additionally, Gandhi influenced important leaders and political movements. Leaders of the civil rights movement in the United States, including Martin Luther King and James Lawson, drew from the writings of Gandhi in the development of their own theories about non-violence. Anti-apartheid activist and former President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, was inspired by Gandhi. Prior to becoming President of the United States, then-Senator Barack Obama noted that: Throughout my life, I have always looked to Mahatma Gandhi as an inspiration, because he embodies the kind of transformational change that can be made when ordinary people come together to do extraordinary things. That is why his portrait hangs in my Senate office: to remind me that real results will come not just from Washington – they will come from the people. (129)
??Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King, Jr. was an American clergyman, activist and prominent leader in the
African-American civil right movement. His main legacy was to secure progress on civil rights in the United States and he is frequently referenced as a human rights icon today.
King led the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott and helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957, serving as its first president. King's efforts led to the 1963 March on Washington, where King delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech. There, he raised public
consciousness of the civil rights movement and established himself as one of the greatest orators in U.S. history. By the time of his death in 1968, he had refocused his efforts on ending poverty and opposing the VietnamWar, both from a religious perspective.
In 1964, King became the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for his work to end
racial segregation and racial discrimination through civil disobedience and other non-violent means. He was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977 and Congressional Gold Medal in 2004; Martin Luther King, Jr. Day was established as a U.S. national
holiday in 1986. (192)
? Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa was an Albanian Roman Catholic nun with Indian citizenship who founded the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, India in 1950. For over 45 years she ministered to the poor, sick, orphaned, and dying, while guiding the Missionaries of Charity?s expansion.
Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity continued to expand, and at the time of her death it was operating 610 missions in 123 countries, including hospices and homes for people with HIV/AIDS,
leprosy and tuberculosis, children's and family counseling programs, and schools.
By the 1970s she was internationally famed as a humanitarian and advocated for the poor and helpless. She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 and India's highest civilian honor, the Bharat Ratna in 1980 for her humanitarian work. (122)
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? Susan B. Anthony
Although I am not a feminist, I admire Susan B. Anthony for her daring to hold on to her view even being mocked cruelly by her contemporaries. A tireless civil rights worker, Anthony devoted her life to the work which has guaranteed women‘s basic right, including suffrage and equal protections under law. She believed that men and women are created equal and persevered uemittingly in opening doors and expanding acceptable modes of behavior for women. In the patriarchy society of her time, people considered her unladylike and ridiculous. However, 19th Amendment to the Constitution gives women‘s rights to vote, which established Susan B. Anthony as a bold revolutionary feminist in history. (111)
?Margaret Sanger
Margaret Sanger sparked the birth control movement with the publication of The Woman Rebel, in which she encourages women to view conception as a choice rather than an obligation. In 1923, her tireless efforts resulted in the establishment of America's first legal birth control clinic, which served as a contraceptive dispensary and research facility under the auspices of the American Birth Control League (one of the groups that eventually morphed into Planned Parenthood). The birth control movement has had far-reaching, worldwide implications, from women's rights to population control to the sexual revolution. (92)
l Bright Minds
? Newton
Newton‘s aim at Cambridge was a law degree. Instruction at Cambridge was dominated by the philosophy of Aristotle but some freedom of study was allowed in the third year of the course. Newton had a golden opportunity to study an abundance of great minds: the philosophy of Descartes, Gassendi, Hobbes, and in particular Boyle. The mechanics of the Copernican
astronomy of Galileo attracted him and he also studied Kepler‘s Optics. It is a fascinating account of how Newton‘s ideas were formed. He collected all these thoughts and developed his own system by which he successfully explained a wide range of previously uelated phenomena: the eccentric orbits of comets, the procession of the Earth‘s axis, and motion of the Moon as perturbed by the gravity of the Sun, as well as the three laws of motion that made him an international leader in scientific research and the greatest pilot in human‘s civilization. (157)
? Darwin’s Origin of Species
The theory of evolution is one of the great intellectual revolutions of human history. Hundreds of years ago, people were confused with the complexity of different species of the world, and believed that species were created by the mysterious God. However, Darwin did not believe so. After several years' study, he eventually demonstrated that species, however complex seemingly, all evolved by natural selection from simple and preliminary conditions. When Darwin published his famous research results on the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, the book encountered lots of controversies. Members of the religious community, as well as some
scientific peers, were outraged and protested. However, Darwin's idea of evolution eventually defeated the traditional belief and was accepted and acknowledged by some insightful scientists and finally by the society. It is now reverenced as one of the greatest intellectual revolutions of human history. (144)
??Nicolaus Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus was a Polish mathematician and astronomer who proposed that the sun was stationary in the center of the universe and the earth revolved around it. Disturbed by the failure of Ptolemy's geocentric model of the universe to follow Aristotle's requirement for the uniform circular motion of all celestial bodies, Copernicus decided that he could achieve his goal only through a heliocentric model. He thereby created a concept of a universe in which the distances of the planets from the sun bore a direct relationship to the size of their orbits. At the time
Copernicus's heliocentric idea was very controversial; nevertheless, it was the start of a change in the way the world was viewed, and Copernicus came to be seen as the initiator of the Scientific Revolution. (129)
? Galileo Galilei
Galileo Galilei was an Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who played a major role in the Scientific Revolution. His achievements include improvements to the
telescope and consequent astronomical observations, and support for Copernicanism. Galileo's observations about four satellites of Jupiter with his new telescope convinced him of the truth of Copernicus's sun-centered or heliocentric theory. Galileo has been called the "father of modern observational astronomy," the "father of modern physics," and "the Father of Modern Science." Stephen Hawking says, "Galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science." (96)
? Christopher Columbus
In 1485, Columbus presented his plans to John II, King of Portugal. He requested he be made "Great Admiral of the Ocean", appointed governor of any and all lands he discovered, and given
one-tenth of all revenue from those lands. The king submitted the proposal to his experts and rejected it. In 1488 Columbus appealed to the court of Portugal once again, and once again it also proved unsuccessful. Then, Columbus travelled from Portugal to both Genoa and Venice, but he received encouragement from neither. In1486, Columbus presented his plans to Queen Isabella. After the passing of much time, these savants of Spain, like their counterparts in Portugal, pronounced the idea impractical, and advised their Royal Highnesses to pass on the proposed venture. But after endless attempts at establishing a settlement of Hispanism, Catholic Monarchs finally gave him an annual allowance of 12,000 maravedis and furnished him with a letter ordering all cities and towns under their domain to provide him food and lodging with which Columbus successfully initiated widespread contact between Europeans and indigenous Americans and carved out the cross-continental trade market. (183)
? John Nash
Before 1950, Adam Smith was respected as ―the father of Game Theory‖, he wrote a famous book named The Wealth of Nations and demonstrated ―perfect competition‖ which was
commonly accepted by people. There is a sentence from the book ―Individual ambition serious the common good‖ which means when each individual pursue his own interests, the benefits of the group will be improved most effectively. However, John Nash, a normal mathematician in Princeton University, created a theory ―Nash Equilibrium‖ which laid the foundation of Game Theory in 1950. He doubted the statement from Adam Smith, and he succeeded. John Nash wrote a 28 pages dissertation to argue a new theory. Due to the fact that personal benefits
conflict each other, the interest of a group will be harmed. To ensure the interests of whole group, individuals should find equilibrium between the personal and group interests. Consequently, John Nash received the Nobel Prize in economics and fundamentally reformed the arena of economics. (160)
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??Alfred Bernhard Nobel-1
Alfred Bernhard Nobel was a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, armaments manufacturer and the inventor of dynamite. To be able to detonate the dynamite rods he also invented a detonator which could be ignited by lighting a fuse. The market for dynamite and detonating caps grew very rapidly and Alfred Nobel also proved himself to be a very skillful entrepreneur and businessman. He later produced ballistite, one of the first smokeless powders. At the time of his death, his will provide his enormous fortune of the major portion of $9 million estate to
institute the Nobel Prize, a yearly prize for merit in physics, chemistry, medicine and physiology, literature, and world peace. The synthetic element nobelium was named after him. (119)
? Thomas Edison
In 19th century, people could only get light from candles, but it suffered from several
disadvantages, including exorbitantly high price and in adequate lightness. Thomas Edison, one of the most prominent inventors in the 20th century, overcame 1500 failure and suitable filament for electric light bulb which were affordable for all people to buy and use. He tried numerous
materials such as iron, copper, aluminum, silver, hair, even his colleague‘s brown beard, but he fails all times. Nevertheless he did not give up and dedicated himself in finding the best material. The belief held by him was that ―we will make the electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn
candles.‖ He had the first successful experiment in 1879, finding that carbon filament can last over 40 hours, but he and his team were not satisfied for that. Through hundreds of tough trying, they finally found carbonized bamboo filament which could last over 1200 hours. Furthermore, the light bulbs invented by Edison with the most suitable filament have not only lighted up the world, but influenced people‘s lives all over the world until now. (185)
篇三：2015年高考作文素材：西方名人故事大全(二)
名人故事-玫瑰花信誓
1797年3月，法兰西总统拿破仑在卢森堡第一国立小学演讲时，潇洒地把一束价值3路易的玫瑰花送给该校的校长，并且说了这样一番话：为了答谢贵校对我、尤其是对我夫人约瑟芬的盛情款待，我不仅今天呈献上一束玫瑰花，并且在未来的日子里，只要我们法兰西存在一天，每年的今天我都将派人送给贵校一束价值相等的玫瑰花，作为法兰西与卢森堡友谊的象征。从此卢森堡这个小国即对这欧洲巨人与卢森堡孩子亲切、和谐相处的一刻念念不忘，并载之入史册。
后来，拿破仑穷于应付连绵的战争和此起彼伏的政治事件，并最终因失败而被流放到圣赫勒那岛，自然也把对卢森堡的承诺忘得一干二净。
谁都不曾料到，1984年底，卢森堡人竟旧事重提，向法国政府提出这赠送玫瑰花的诺言，并且要求索赔。他们要求法国政府：一、要么从1798年起，用3个路易作为一束玫瑰花的本金，以5厘复利计息全部清偿；二、要么在法国各大报刊上公开承认拿破仑是个言而无信的小人。法国政府当然不想有损拿破仑的声誉，但电脑算出来的数字让他们惊呆了：原本3路易的许诺，至今本息已高达1375596法郎。最后，法国政府通过冥思苦想，才找到一个使卢森堡比较满意的答复，即：以后无论在精神上还是在物质上，法国将始终不渝地对卢森堡大公国的中小学教育事业予以支持与赞助，来兑现我们的拿破仑将军那一诺千金的玫瑰花信誓。
也许拿破仑至死也没想到，自己一时即兴言辞会给法兰西带来这样的尴尬。但是，这也正说明了一个道理：许诺只在一瞬，践约需要永远无论是凡人还是伟人。
名人故事-林肯智胜埃弗雷特
1863年7月,在美国南北战争期间,华盛顿附近的葛底斯堡发生了一次历时三天的战斗,虽然北方部队获得了胜利,但是也牺牲了无数将士。几个北部州联合起来,在葛底斯堡建立了国家烈士公墓,用来安葬那些阵亡的将士。
公墓落成的那天,举行了一个盛大的典礼,他们邀请了前国务卿埃弗雷特到会演讲。埃弗雷特是一位非常擅长长时间演讲的口才专家,他的最长演讲曾达到210分钟,而且还能保证大家都爱听。恰巧那天,林肯总统就在附近的城市从事政治活动,于是埃弗雷特提示典礼的主办者把林肯请来随便讲几句。
谁都知道,埃弗雷特和林肯是政敌,在林肯竞选的时候,埃弗雷特就大力阻挠过,所以这一次埃弗雷特打定主意,要让林肯在毫无准备的情况下当众出丑。于是他多角度多方面下手,进行了一次长达两个小时的演讲,那场演讲简直是声情并茂,让在场的所有观众都鼓起了掌。对于埃弗雷特的用意,林肯心中自然有数,听了埃弗雷特的演讲之后,林肯心中立刻反应过来这次只能以巧取胜了,因为无论是说阵亡将士的精神还是烈士公墓的意义,那些埃弗雷特都已经做了非常出色和成功的演讲,接着再讲只能是拾人牙慧。该怎么样讲才能和听众建立良好的交
融关系,并最终赢得他们的喝彩呢?
林肯决定以简洁取胜。他不慌不忙地走上演讲台,说:我今天要告诉大家的是,通往烈士公墓的马路将在下个月铺成沥青马路,并开通专线班车。
林肯的演讲前前后后只有两个全句,他前一句先揪住埃弗雷特的长处,用长达两个小时的演讲无疑是在浪费大家的生命这样的潜台词,不仅把埃弗雷特给否定了,而且还为自己的超短演讲做了巧妙的定位,力挽狂澜,一下子就把自己的劣势反变为优势了。
最重要的,尽管埃弗雷特滔滔不绝地讲了许多,但却丝毫没有提及现实生活中的事情,而林肯在之前就已经注意到通往公墓的马路还是颠簸不堪的石子路,林肯意识到这一定让所有参加典礼的人都觉得不方便,于是他把解决这个问题的方法和期限作为演讲的内容,结果不仅得到了在场近万人持续10分钟的掌声,甚至轰动了全国。
当时的报纸这样评价:这是一次史无前例的超级简洁的演讲,他的演讲是有生命的,因为他站在了听众的立场上考虑最现实的事情!就连埃弗雷(转自：wWw.DXf5.Com 东星 资源网:外国名人故事短篇)特本人也忍不住在几天后给林肯写了一封表示敬佩的信:
你的智慧决定着你是一位无比优秀的总统!
名人故事-苏格拉底与厉害妻子
古希腊著名思想家苏格拉底有一个泼妇妻子，可以说是天下第一号的厉害妇人，苏格拉底经常受她的管制与欺侮。
有一天，苏格拉底正在楼下教授门徒，忽然听见楼上发出敲打楼板的声音。原来是他的太太怨他教得太久了，而在大发脾气，正用脚用力跺楼板呢。学生们便说：老师，最好现在就停下来，因为师母正在发脾气呢!苏格拉底说：再过一会就讲完了，停下来太可惜。所以他仍坚持把课讲授完。这下，他的太太可真发火了，趁苏格拉底正与学生研讨课程的时候，在楼上把一盆水浇到他的身上，这一下苏格拉底成了落汤鸡了。
老师，真对不起，为了教我们课，让你难堪了。学生们歉意地说。
苏格拉底却以一种司空见惯的幽默口吻说道：不要紧，先打雷，现在下雨，不是理所当然嘛!
后来别人问苏格拉底，为什么要找一位泼妇为妻，他却一本正经地说：
这样可以锻炼人的意志啊!
名人故事-克列奥巴特拉女王
克列奥巴特拉七世生于公元前69年，死于公元前30年，她是埃及托勒密王朝的最后一位女王。由于她卷入当时罗马的政治漩涡，同古代罗马世界两位声名显赫的人物恺撒和安东尼关系密切，并都生有私生子，加之种种传闻轶事，使她成为史书和文学作品中的著名人物。
克列奥巴特拉是托勒密十二世的长女，从小聪颖机智，受到了良好的宫廷教育。成年后，出落得十分标致，才貌绝伦，擅长施展政治手腕。公元前51年，托勒密十二世去世，留下遗嘱安排长女克列奥巴特拉和长子托勒密十三世为继承人，联合统治，并要罗马作埃及的保护者。这一年她仅仅18岁，已经表现出无限的权力欲。她在与异母弟托勒密十三世争夺权力的斗争中失利，于公元前48年被逐出亚历山大里亚，到了叙利亚。在叙利亚，她组织了一支军队，准备反攻埃及。
此时，恺撒追击政敌庞培来到埃及，并对埃及的王位之争进行干预。克列奥巴特拉得知这个消息，深夜乘船离开叙利亚，只身潜入亚历山大里亚，藏在托勒密十三世赠给恺撒的一卷巨大的地毯里面。她决心亲自和恺撒面谈。地毯在恺撒面前铺开，克列奥巴特拉从中跳将出来，把恺撒吓了一跳。恺撒看见是位绝世的美女，又转惊为喜。克列奥巴特拉很快就成了恺撒的情妇，俘虏了恺撒，她依靠恺撒的支持，在埃及进行统治。托勒密十三世发动反对恺撒的战争，遭到失败，葬身尼罗河底。克列奥巴特拉成了埃及的真正统治者，在名义上与她的异母兄弟，只有10岁的托勒密十四世共同执政。她对恺撒百般逢迎，并为其生下一子，取名为恺撒里恩。公元前45年，她应邀前往罗马，寓居在恺撒的别墅里，备受宠爱。可是不久，恺撒被以布鲁图斯为首的共和派刺死，克列奥巴特拉逃回埃及，而罗马则爆发了内战。
恺撒死后，共和派和恺撒的拥护者展开了斗争。公元前42年的腓力堡一战，恺撒的继承者安东尼击败了共和派军队而声名大振。战胜共和派后，安东尼前往小亚细亚，向一些支持共和派的城市问罪。他在塔尔索斯遣使赴埃及，召见克列奥巴特拉七世，声称要追究她援助共和派的罪责。
克列奥巴特拉七世面临威胁，但她对罗马政局及其头面人物较为理解，认为可以利用这个机会，使她的国家免遭罗马军队践踏。据说，她让安东尼坐等了好几天，才乘坐一只装饰得金碧辉煌的大船来到了塔尔索斯。她把自己打扮成爱神维纳斯的模样，安卧在薄如蝉羽的纱帐之中，美丽的童子就象丘比特一样侍立两旁。船到岸时，正遇上安东尼召集一次群众大会，人们丢下安东尼拥向岸边，疑是维纳斯女神降临。当安东尼出现时，克列奥巴特拉热情迎接。看到克列奥巴特拉的迷人风姿，安东尼神魂颠倒，被她俘虏了，并随她去了埃及，保住了她的王位。
安东尼本是一个出色的军事统帅，他的才干超过恺撒的养子屋大维，并且据有显要的门第和众多崇拜者。如果他留住罗马，与屋大维较量，很可能成为罗马的唯一主宰者，但是他却耽于酒色，留在亚历山大里亚，与克列奥巴特拉朝夕嬉戏，把罗马双手送给了屋大维。公元前37年，安东尼违反罗马的传统习俗，冒重婚罪与克列奥巴特拉七世举行婚札，宣布他们的三个孩子是合法的而非私生的，并将罗马东方行省的部分地区赠送给克列奥巴特拉及其子女。这种行为在罗马引起了极端的不满。公元前34年，安东尼打败亚美尼亚人，不是在罗马而是在亚历山大里亚，按照埃及的礼仪举行凯旋式，这更激起了罗马人的愤怒。在罗马，人们对克列奥巴特拉七世恨之入骨，屋大维正是利用了罗马人的这种情绪同安东尼进行斗争。
公元前32年，屋大维对克列奥巴特拉七世宣战。次年，安东尼、克列奥巴特拉和屋大维的军队大战于阿克提乌姆海角。起初，战斗不分胜负，但在战斗最激烈的时候，克列奥巴特拉率领埃及舰队突然撤出战场，逃往埃及，安东尼见女王乘船离开，便撇下战斗部队，跟踪而去。军队失去主帅，被屋大维全部消灭，这次海战决定了安东尼和克列奥巴特拉的命运。
公元前30年，屋大维进攻埃及本土，包围了亚历山大里亚。安东尼见大势已去，只好在城内拔剑自杀，克列奥巴特拉则被屋大维俘获。当她得知屋大维要把她带回罗马在凯旋式上示众的时候，便决意自杀。尽管她被严加看管，但还是设法得到了心腹女仆放在一篮无花果中的一条毒蛇。她抓起毒蛇放在自己裸露的胸脯上，被蛇咬伤后中毒而死。
克列奥巴特拉七世死后，屋大维把埃及改成罗马的一个行省，结束了它的独立，长达三百年之久的埃及托勒密王朝宣告结束。