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* Cleopatra Selene marries Juba II of Numidia, and as a wedding present Augustus makes her queen of Mauretania in her own right.
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Cleopatra and Selene
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* Cleopatra Selene II ( 40 – 5 BC ), daughter of Cleopatra VII and Mark Antony
#* The twins Alexander Helios & Cleopatra Selene II.
Cleopatra Selene, Queen of Mauretania, 40 BC – 6 AD, had 2 children
* Cleopatra Selene ( II ), Egyptian ruler of Cyrenaica and Libya ( b. 40 BC )
* Cleopatra Selene ( d. AD 6 ) and Alexander Helios ( d. between 29 and 25 BC ), the twins of Cleopatra VII of Egypt and Mark Antony
The Qabr-er-Rumia -- best known by its French name, Tombeau de la Chrétienne, tradition making it the burial-place of Florinda, la Cava Rumía, the beautiful and unfortunate daughter of Count Julian -- is near Kolea, and is known to be the tomb of the Mauretanian king Juba II and of his wife Cleopatra Selene, daughter of Mark Antony and Cleopatra, queen of Egypt.
Drusilla ’ s paternal grandmother, the Queen of Mauretania Cleopatra Selene II, was a daughter of the Ptolemaic Greek Queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt and Roman triumvir Mark Antony.
Cleopatra Selene may refer to:
* Cleopatra Selene I, daughter of Ptolemy VIII Physcon and Cleopatra III of Egypt
* Cleopatra Selene II, also known as Cleopatra VIII, daughter of Cleopatra VII and Mark Antony
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Alexander Helios received Armenia and Media, to Cleopatra Selene he gives the kingdoms of Cyrenaica and Libya.
* The children of Cleopatra are spared by Octavian and taken back in triumph ; Octavia Minor raised Alexander Helios, Cleopatra Selene and Ptolemy Philadelphus in her household in Rome.
With Antony, she bore the twins Cleopatra Selene II and Alexander Helios, and another son, Ptolemy Philadelphus.
Cleopatra and marries
* The new king of the Seleucid Empire, Alexander Balas, marries Cleopatra Thea, a daughter of Ptolemy VI Philometor of Egypt.
He retreats, loses many men to disease and starvation in the subsequent retreat to Egypt, marries Cleopatra VII and is still married to Octavia.
* Cleopatra I Syra, daughter of Antiochus III and Laodice, marries the Egyptian King Ptolemy V Epiphanes.
* Ptolemy VI Philometor marries his sister, Cleopatra II.
The central story is of a self-serving trapeze artist named Cleopatra ( Olga Baclanova ), who seduces and eventually marries a sideshow midget, Hans ( Harry Earles ), after learning of his large inheritance.
Cleopatra and Juba
The daughter, Cleopatra Selene, was married through arrangements of Octavian to Juba II of Mauretania.
The botanical name Euphorbia derives from Euphorbus, the Greek physician of king Juba II of Numidia ( 52 – 50 BC – 23 AD ), who married the daughter of Anthony and Cleopatra.
Cleopatra is said to have exerted considerable influence on Juba II's policies.
** A daughter of Cleopatra and Juba, whose name has not been recorded, is mentioned in an inscription.
If so, she would have been a princess of Mauretania, the youngest child of queen Cleopatra Selene II and king Juba II and a sister to king Ptolemy of Mauretania.
Drusilla with her brother, were the only grandchildren of African king Juba I of Numidia, Ptolemaic Greek queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt and were among the younger grandchildren of Roman Triumvir Mark Antony.
The only further mention of Alexander Helios and Ptolemy Philadelphus comes from Cassius Dio, who states that when their sister Cleopatra Selene II married King Juba II, Octavian ( then named Augustus ) spared the lives of Alexander Helios and Ptolemy Philadelphus as a favor to the couple.
* Cleopatra Selene II & Juba II
* Cleopatra Selene II and Juba II
The learned client king Juba II of Numidia ( died 23 BC ), husband of the daughter of Antony and Cleopatra, claimed his descent from a liaison of Hercules with Tinga, the consort of Antaeus.
Juba I was the father of King of Numidia and later Mauretania, Juba II ( 50 / 52 BC – 23 ), father-in-law of Juba II ’ s wives Greek Ptolemaic princess Cleopatra Selene II ( 40 BC – 6 BC ), Cappodocian princess Glaphyra and paternal grandfather to King Ptolemy of Mauretania ( 1 BC – 40 AD ) and Mauretanian princess Drusilla of Mauretania ( born 5 AD ).
*** Cleopatra Selene II ( wife of Juba II of Numidia )
Between 26 BC-20 BC, Augustus arranged for Cleopatra to marry African King Juba II of Numidia in Rome.
When Cleopatra married Juba, she was the only surviving member of the Ptolemaic dynasty.
Juba and Cleopatra could not return to Numidia as it had been provincialized in 46 BC.
Cleopatra is said to have exercised great influence on policies that Juba created.
The children of Cleopatra and Juba were:
* A daughter of Cleopatra and Juba, whose name has not been recorded, is mentioned in an inscription.
To explain this strange marital problem, historians have supposed some sort of rift between Cleopatra and Juba that was eventually mended after Juba's divorce from Glaphyra.
The argument goes that if Juba married Glaphyra before 4 then his first wife Cleopatra, must have already been dead.
Cleopatra and II
* Cleopatra II of Egypt ( c. 185 – 116 BC ), queen ( and briefly sole ruler ) of Ptolemaic Egypt
* Cleopatra Eurydice of Macedon ( 4th century BC ), wife of Philip II of Macedon
* Cleopatra of Macedon ( c. 356 – 308 BC ), sister of Alexander the Great, daughter of Philip II of Macedon and Olympias of Epirus
* Cleopatra Thea ( c. 164 – 121 BC ), daughter of Cleopatra II and Ptolemy VI Philometor
In 47 BCE the lives of Julius Caesar and his protege Cleopatra were saved by 3, 000 crack Jewish troops sent by King Hyrcanus II and commanded by Antipater, whose descendants Caesar made kings of Judea.
* 164 BC – Cleopatra Thea Euergetis (" Benefactress "), ruler of the Seleucid kingdom from 125 BC, a daughter of Ptolemy VI of Egypt and his sister / wife Cleopatra II ( d. 121 BC ) ( approximate date )
* Cleopatra II of Egypt and her brother Ptolemy VIII of Egypt reconcile.
On 25 December 40 BC, Cleopatra gave birth to twins fathered by Antony, Alexander Helios and Cleopatra Selene II.
At the Donations of Alexandria in late 34 BC, following Antony's conquest of Armenia, Cleopatra and Caesarion were crowned co-rulers of Egypt and Cyprus ; Alexander Helios was crowned ruler of Armenia, Media, and Parthia ; Cleopatra Selene II was crowned ruler of Cyrenaica and Libya ; and Ptolemy Philadelphus was crowned ruler of Phoenicia, Syria, and Cilicia.
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