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Cleopatra Selene (40 BC-11/7 AD)
Cleopatra Selene was the daughter of Marcus Antonius and Queen Cleopatra VII. Selene was born in 40 BC with her similitude brother, Alexander Helios. She was seized by Augustus in 30 BC and exposed in his rejoice in Rome in 29 BC. She was referred by Octavia, the sister of Augustus and Roman wife of Antonius, and married to King Juba II of Mauretania (modern Morocco) around 20 BC. Cleopatra Selene may have acted as regent for her husband during his absences from the kingdom, and she seems on his coinage. She had leastwise one son, King Ptolemy of Mauretania, who was executed by Caligula in 40 AD and is the last known related of the Ptolemaic dynasty.
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Cleopatra Berenice III (d. 80 BC)
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Cleopatra VII Philopator (69-30 BC)
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Cleopatra VII Philopator was the Egyptian queen. Daughter of Ptolemy XII and perchance Cleopatra VI Tryphaena. She followed her father alongside her earlier brother and check, Ptolemy XIII, with whom she presently fell out. Their civil war was interrupted by the arrival in Egypt of Iulius Caesar who soon sided with Cleopatra and defeated her brothers rams in 47 BC during a battle in which he was defeated. Cleopatra VII Philopator was set up as ruler of Egypt with her smaller brother, Ptolemy XIV, as run, but she had become Caesars mistress and took him as the father of her son, Ptolemy Caesarion. She was in Rome in 44 BC when Caesar was late and hurriedly returned to Egypt. Her brother soon died and was superseded as ruling pharaoh by her son as Ptolemy XV.
Cleopatra VII Philopator made an alliance with Marcus Antonius, who was in direction of the eastern Roman Empire, and took him 3 children. She used her involvement with Antonius to embellish Egypt to the detriment of other southeastern states. Their relationship gave Antoniuss touch, Augustus, the opportunity to vilify him in Rome and adjudge war on Egypt as a threat to Rome. Egyptian forces were frustrated at the battle of Actium in 31 BC and, after the fall of Alexandria in 30 BC, Cleopatra VII Philopator committed suicide rather than be taken captive to Rome.
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| Hieroglyphic name of Cleopatra VII |
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| Cleopatra VII |
Cleopatra VII Philopator made an alliance with Marcus Antonius, who was in direction of the eastern Roman Empire, and took him 3 children. She used her involvement with Antonius to embellish Egypt to the detriment of other southeastern states. Their relationship gave Antoniuss touch, Augustus, the opportunity to vilify him in Rome and adjudge war on Egypt as a threat to Rome. Egyptian forces were frustrated at the battle of Actium in 31 BC and, after the fall of Alexandria in 30 BC, Cleopatra VII Philopator committed suicide rather than be taken captive to Rome.
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Cleopatra VI Tryphaena (d. 57 BC)
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Cleopatra VI Tryphaena was the wife of Ptolemy XII. Her origin is strange, but she was presumably his sister or half sister and so daughter of Ptolemy IX. She evidently stayed in the country when her husband was routed out in 58 BC and ruled collectively with her daughter, Berenice IV. Earlier learners had reckoned that the coruler was a sister of Berenice IV and looked Cleopatra V Tryphaena as the mother and Cleopatra VI Tryphaena as the daughter, but these two are now considered as one and the same; the appointment Cleopatra V has now been assigned to Cleopatra V Selene.
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| Hieroglyphic name of Cleopatra VI |
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| Cleopatra VI |
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Cleopatra V Selene (140/135-69 BC)
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Cleopatra V Selene (140/135-69 BC) was the daughter of King Ptolemy VIII and Cleopatra III. About 116 BC, she married her brother, Ptolemy IX, afterwards he was special by his mother to dissociate his first wife and their sister, Cleopatra IV. She stayed in Egypt when her conserve was discharged in 107 BC, and in 103 BC she united her cousin, Antiochus VIII Grypus, ruler of Syria, son of her aunt Cleopatra Thea, and early husband of her sister, Cleopatra VI Tryphaena. Antiochus VIII Grypus was killed in 96 BC. Cleopatra Selene then married 2 further rulers of Syria, Antiochus IX Cyzicenus (d. 95 BC), cousin of her husband but as well his maternal half brother finished Cleopatra Thea and former husband of her other sister, Cleopatra IV, and in the end her stepson, Antiochus X Eusebes (killed around 89 BC). She plain had two sons by her first husband, whose fate is uncertain, and two sons by her last husband, who aimed to rule in Syria. Cleopatra Selene was seized during an invasion of Syria by Tigranes, king of Armenia, and gone in Seleucia-on-the-Tigris in 69 BC. Because the last Cleopatra V Tryphaena and Cleopatra VI Tryphaena are now involved as identical, Cleopatra Selene is quoted in more recent scholarship as Cleopatra V Selene.
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| Hieroglyphic name of Cleopatra V |
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| Cleopatra V |
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