cleopatrasdaughter:make me choose: @nephbit: cleopatra or cleopatra seleneCleopatra Selene II (40-c
cleopatrasdaughter:make me choose: @nephbit: cleopatra or cleopatra seleneCleopatra Selene II (40-c. 5 B.C.E.)“Cleopatra’s death did not mean the end of her family. She had four children: Caesarion by Julius Caesar, and the twins Cleopatra Selene and Alexander Helios and their younger brother Ptolemy Philadelphos by Mark Antony. Although Octavian rebuffed her efforts to save her kingdom for her children and murdered Caesarion, he spared the twins and Ptolemy Philadelphos. Little is known of their lives before they came into Octavian’s power. Cleopatra Selene and Alexander Helios first appear in 37 b.c.e., when Antony recognized them as his own at Antioch. Cleopatra also probably engaged the philosopher and historian Nikolaos of Damaskos as her children’s primary tutor. Three years later, they took center stage at the so- called Donations of Alexandria, the carefully staged pageant Cleopatra and Antony put on at Alexandria as part of the celebration of his conquest of Armenia. Cleopatra Selene is not mentioned in Plutarch’s account of the division of territories that took place then, but other sources indicate that she received Kyrenaika and part of Crete. Coins issued with an image of a crocodile on the reverse side commemorated her authority over her new realm.Cleopatra Selene’s reign over Kyrenaika and Crete ended in 30 b.c.e. Octavian introduced her and her brothers to Rome during his triumph the next year. A relief recently discovered in the ruins of his monument at Nicopolis shows the children riding with him in his chariot during the triumph. Afterward, Octavia took charge of their rearing, while Octavian treated them as part of his extended family. The disappearance of her brothers from the historical record after the triumph suggests that unlike their sister, they died soon after their arrival in Rome. Roman girls were considered ready for marriage in their teens, and Cleopatra Selene was no exception. At Octavia’s suggestion, Octavian arranged her marriage to Juba II, the young king of the recently conquered kingdom of Mauretania in north Africa. The date of the marriage is unknown, but it probably occurred between Juba’s accession in 25 b.c.e. and 19 b.c.e., when coins show Juba and her as rulers of Mauretania. During the almost two decades of her marriage, Cleopatra Selene and Juba transformed the Mauretanian capital of Iol into a center of Greek and Roman culture named Caesaria. She also tried to maintain the legacy of her mother, issuing coins with types similar to those struck during her reign over Kyrenaika and Crete and naming her son Ptolemy. The line of Cleopatra did not end with Cleopatra Selene’s death about 5 b.c.e. Two children of Cleopatra Selene and Juba are known. Her daughter, Drusilla, married a freedman of the emperor Claudius, who later became procurator of Judea and in that capacity remanded St. Paul to Rome for trial; while her son, Ptolemy, ruled Mauretania from Juba’s death in 23 or 24 c.e. until his murder by the emperor Caligula sometime between 37 and 41 c.e. With them finally ended the long line of the descendants of Ptolemy I.” (Stanley Burstein, ‘The Reign of Cleopatra’) -- source link
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