The kingdom of Mauretania was a vast territory. It is traditionally believed that she was alive to mint them, but this would mean that her husband married Princess In 25 BC, Augustus decided to confer on Juba and Selene the newly created Mauretania was a vast territory, but lacked organization. The two factions came face to face with each other off the coast of Greece at the Battle of Actium in September 31 BC. Their new kingdom was in serious need of modernisation, so they refounded Iol as Caesarea in honour of their benefactor Augustus.
Once they arrived in Mauretania they were free to make their own decisions, accountable to no one, except possibly Augustus. Once defeat was inevitable, they famously each committed suicide rather than surrender. Their royal court attracted scholars and artists from across the Roman Empire and became a cosmopolitan fusion of Greek, Roman and Egyptian culture.The couple ruled Mauretania for almost two decades, until Cleopatra’s early death at the age of 35. Once Juba II died in 23 A.D., Ptolemy became the sole ruler.
Cleopatra Selene is the forgotten daughter of the infamous Cleopatra VII.
While Juba II was king of Mauretania, he never had any prior experience in ruling. Certainly, it was around this time that she bore her fourth and last child, who was named after Ptolemy I Soter’s son and heir, Ptolemy II Philadelphos, the ruler who had won all these territories in the first place.Antony’s Parthian campaign proved to be a humiliating failure, although that did not prevent him from returning to Alexandria as a conquering hero in 34 BC. The following epigram by Greek epigrammatist If this poem isn't simply literary license, Selene's death seems to have ironically coincided with a Cleopatra was survived by her husband and their son Ptolemy, who ruled Mauretania together until Juba's death in AD 23. We do not know what happened to them, but it is most likely that they died of natural causes before they reached adulthood.When Cleopatra Selene reached the age of maturity, Augustus began to think of a suitable match for her. Since women couldn’t rule alone in Egypt, she married her … The daughter’s name is technically unknown but is thought to be Drusilla. This would have allowed him to parade her through the streets of Rome during the triple triumph he was planning to celebrate his victories against Illyricum, Actium and Egypt, just as Caesar had paraded her sister Arsinoë in his own triumph celebrating his victory in the Alexandrian War in 48 BC. Marc Antony was defeated and retreated to Alexandria.
On the contrary, over the next decade Octavian’s negative propaganda made much of the fact that Antony had not only indulged in a shameful liaison with a foreign woman that had resulted in him rejecting not just one but two lawful Roman wives (Fulvia died in 40 BC and was promptly replaced by Octavian’s sister Octavia), but he had also fathered a brood of illegitimate foreign children. Like him they had a part to play in the succession and with this in mind Cleopatra selected their names very carefully. It was only a matter of time when Octavian caught up with them in Alexandria.A contemporary poet, Crinagoras of Mytilene, also wrote a poem to commemorate the marriage. When Octavian left the newly created province, he took the twins and Ptolemy Philadelphos back to Rome with him.Octavian had originally hoped to take Cleopatra alive. Cleopatra VII Philopator (Koinē Greek: Κλεοπάτρα Φιλοπάτωρ, Kleopátra Philopátōr; 69 – 10 or 12 August 30 BC) was the last active ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt. She was executed by him after his return. 1556332. Her paternal grandfather, Marcus Antonius Creticus, had been ordered to rid Crete of pirates and the Ptolemies had once controlled the Cyrenaica.
In addition to the natural advantages provided by the climate, environment and geology of Egypt, the city of Alexandria was a major centre of trade in the Mediterranean and the kingdom also had the monopoly of trading with India and the Far East.Although Greek and Roman writers enjoyed claiming that Antony succumbed to Cleopatra’s charms and fell in love with her at first sight, the encounter in Tarsus was not actually the first time the two had met. Get kids back-to-school ready with Expedition: Learn! Get exclusive access to content from our 1768 First Edition with your subscription.
Thus, she was obviously a smart, competent ruler who died while in the prime of her life. However the deaths of their mother and Caesarion left Cleopatra Selene and Alexander Helios nominally in charge of Egypt, so they were brought back to Alexandria to reign in name only until the kingdom was officially annexed by the Roman Empire two weeks later. For centuries, power passed from father to son, mother to daughter, in royal dynasties. The market-place was quite emptied, and Antony at last was left alone (Life of Antony 25.5-26.3).There is no doubt that Cleopatra carefully orchestrated every last detail of her arrival in Tarsus. Their daughter, Cleopatra Selene, became an important ruler in her own right. I highly doubt the likelihood of that but still got curious and wanted to learn more. Overview of the fall of Egypt, with a detailed discussion of Cleopatra's relationship with Mark Antony. Does anyone know of Selene having any daughters?It’s thought that Selene had Ptolemy and then a daughter.
In addition to money, she offered him something else that he had been missing and that was the opportunity for fun and decadent self-indulgence.