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Jan 31, 2022 · Alexander Helios’s twin, Cleopatra Selene, was her mother’s sole daughter. As her brother had been named after the Greek god of the Sun, Cleopatra Selene was named for the goddess of...
- Sarah Mcgrath
Apr 21, 2012 · The researcher identified the children as Alexander Helios and Cleopatra Selene, Antony and Cleopatra's twins, following a detailed stylistic and iconographic analysis published by...
May 17, 2023 · The twins, Cleopatra Selene and Alexander Helios, then aged ten, and Ptolemy Philadelphus, then aged four, were moved to Rome and put under the care of Octavian's sister. The fates of Ptolemy Philadelphus and Alexander Helios are largely unknown, but Cleopatra Selene was married to King Juba of Numidia, and the couple became successful rulers ...
- Natalia Klimczak
- Cleopatra made an ally of Julius Caesar, who helped to establish her on the throne. She then invited him to join her on a voyage up the Nile, and when she subsequently gave birth to a son, she named the baby Caesarion – ‘little Caesar’.
- Fantasies about Cleopatra’s beauty are just that. Plutarch, the Greek biographer of Mark Antony, claimed it wasn’t so much her looks that were so compelling, but her conversation and her intelligence.
- Cleopatra was living in Rome, as the mistress of Julius Caesar, at the time that he was assassinated. Caesar’s assassination in 44 BC meant Cleopatra herself was in danger, so she left at once.
- Cleopatra was a mother as well as the ruler of Egypt. She had Caesarion, her eldest son, represented on the temple wall at Dendera alongside her, as sharing her rule.
Sep 23, 2019 · Cleopatra and Antony had three children, twins – Cleopatra Selene, and Alexander Helios (born 40 BC), and the younger son, Ptolemy Philadelphus (born 36 BC).
Nov 28, 2022 · Antony and Cleopatra’s legendary love affair led to them having fraternal twins, Cleopatra Selene and Alexander Helios, and later another boy, Ptolemy Philadelphos. Thus for the first decade of her life, Cleopatra Selene was raised in Egypt as an Egyptian princess.
Jul 13, 2023 · In 40 BCE, Cleopatra gave birth to her and Marc Antony’s twins: Alexander Helios and Cleopatra Selene II. As with Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra’s relationship proved complicated. Antony...
