Cleopatra and Mark Antony's only daughter survived her parents' suicides in 30 BC. Augustus brought her to Rome, raised her in his sister's household, and at fifteen married her off to a Numidian-Roman scholar-king and gave them a kingdom of their own to rule. Which one?
Cleopatra Selene II married Juba II of Mauretania around 25 BC. Both had been raised in the same Roman aristocratic household; Augustus gave them Mauretania as a client kingdom. Their capital, Iol, was renamed Caesarea (modern Cherchell, Algeria). Numidia had been Juba's father's kingdom but was annexed by Rome after the father's suicide in 46 BC. Cappadocia had its own Roman client dynasty. The Bosporan kingdom was a different Roman client kingdom around the Sea of Azov — Cleopatra Selene had nothing to do with it.
Read the full story →Cleopatra and Mark Antony had three children. The boys died young. The daughter Cleopatra Selene II was raised by the wife of the man who had killed her parents and married off to a North African client king. She named her son Ptolemy. He was killed by Caligula.
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