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Jan 10, 2023 · Jane Draycott reveals how Cleopatra Selene, daughter of Mark Antony and Cleopatra, turned a tragic inheritance into a triumphant reign...
Cleopatra Selene was the only daughter of Greek Ptolemaic Queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt and Roman Triumvir Mark Antony. In the Donations of Antioch and of Alexandria, she was made queen of Cyrenaica and Libya.
May 22, 2018 · Their daughter, Cleopatra Selene, became an important ruler in her own right. T he love affair of Cleopatra VII, Queen of Egypt (69-30 BC), and Marcus Antonius, Roman triumvir (83-30 BC) is legendary.
Jun 12, 2024 · Cleopatra Selene, the sole daughter of Queen Cleopatra VII, was born around 40 BC in Egypt. On her mother’s side, she was born into the Ptolemaic dynasty, the Greek Macedonian royal family who had ruled over Egypt since the breakup of Alexander the Great’s empire.
Feb 18, 2020 · However, while most of her children quickly followed her to the grave, her daughter with Marc Anthony, Cleopatra Selene II, carried on the Ptolemy name and began her own lineage of rulers in a new kingdom.
May 23, 2023 · Cleopatra’s Daughter Led a Life as Eventful as Her Mother’s. A new biography by Jane Draycott shines a light on an African queen whose career has been overshadowed by that of her famous...
Nov 28, 2022 · Jane Draycott's book, 'Cleopatra's Daughter: Egyptian Princess, Roman Prisoner, African Queen', is the first modern biography of one of the most fascinating, and unjustly neglected, female rulers of the ancient world: Cleopatra Selene.
May 12, 2023 · Unlike her husband, she still has an instantly recognizable name: Cleopatra Selene (“the moon”), the only daughter of one of the most notorious, glamorized, and in the end spectacularly ...
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Jun 19, 2023 · Cleopatra Selene II, daughter of the famed Egyptian queen Cleopatra VII and Roman general Mark Antony, led a remarkable and turbulent life that intertwined the legacies of both Egypt and Rome.
Apr 6, 2021 · Cleopatra Selene II and her twin brother Alexander Helios (40 - c. late 1st century BCE) were the children of the Roman triumvir Mark Antony (83-30 BCE). Cleopatra Selene II’s contemporaries claimed that she was her mother’s equal in charm and intelligence and that she surpassed her in beauty.
