Of the physical conditions in which the royal offspring lived, and Cleopatra’sĮmotional responses to her dramatic early life, are plausible and vivid. Is skilled at bringing ancient social environments to life. Stand alongside the dozen or more novels in which Cleopatra Selene appears, This intriguing figure, producing the only modern full-length biography to Jane Draycott has wrestled dauntlessly with the little evidence there is about Is virtually all that the surviving written sources have to say about her, but Girl and a boy Cleopatra died in her mid-thirties. Juba was a keen supporter of intellectual, cultural andĪrchitectural endeavours their kingdom prospered. They named theirĬapital Caesarea (now Cherchell, Algeria) to acknowledge Juba’s status asĪugustus’ client. Newly expanded realm, at that point retitled Mauretania. He became a loyal henchman of the Roman emperor. Too, had been raised in Rome after his father’s kingdom had been annexed, and “blended” family in the imperial residences on the Palatine Hill.Ībout fifteen, Cleopatra Junior was married off to King Juba II of Numidia. Octavia had once been married to Mark Antony, and looked after her large Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt, was taken in by Octavian’s older sister Octavia. But their sister, the last known survivor of the Teens, were taken to Rome, at which point both boys mysteriously disappear from The other three children, not yet in their Caesarion, as Julius Caesar’s son, was killed by Octavian in 30īCE, to remove a potential rival. Selene soon lost her father, her mother and all three brothers produced by herįamous mother (most of her five half-siblings, the children of Mark Antony,įared better). (Moon-Goddess) and Alexander “Helios” (Sun-God), born in 40 BCE, and Ptolemy Her otherīabies were fathered by Mark Antony – the twins Cleopatra “Selene” He reigned over Egypt jointly with his mother from the age of three. Theįirst was her son by Julius Caesar, Ptolemy XV, known as Caesarion, “Little Caesar” But sheīore four living children between her mid-twenties and her mid-thirties. Picture of Cleopatra as mother-of-four does not quickly spring to mind. The future emperor Augustus, defeats her at the battle of Actium in 31 BCE. Wealth, or pressing a phallic asp into her billowing cleavage after Octavian, Name “Cleopatra” conjures images of a seductive siren – sailing in an opulentīarge, dissolving a pearl in vinegar to convince Mark Antony of her fabulous
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