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5 days ago · Mark Antony and Cleopatra had three children: twins Cleopatra Selene II and Alexander Helios, plus a younger son, Ptolemy Philadelphus. After their parents’ deaths, the children’s futures became uncertain in Rome.
4 days ago · Cleopatra had three children: Caesarion (Ptolemy XV), her son with Julius Caesar, and twins Alexander Helios and Cleopatra Selene II, her children with Mark Antony. Tragically, Caesarion was executed by Octavian, while the twins were spared and raised in Rome.
3 days ago · He distributed kingdoms among his children: Alexander Helios was named king of Armenia, Media and Parthia (territories which were not for the most part under the control of Rome), his twin Cleopatra Selene got Cyrenaica and Libya, and the young Ptolemy Philadelphus was awarded Syria and Cilicia.
4 days ago · The campaign was also an attempt to emulate Alexander Helios the Great’s military successes, who had conquered vast swaths of Roman territory in the east. Antony hoped to achieve similar glory and cement his position as one of Rome’s greatest generals.
2 days ago · Roman troops captured the Kingdom of Armenia in 34 BC, and Antony made his son Alexander Helios the ruler of Armenia. He also awarded the title "Queen of Kings" to Cleopatra, acts that Octavian used to convince the Roman Senate that Antony had ambitions to diminish the preeminence of Rome.
1 day ago · Reigning for 275 years, the Ptolemaic was the longest and last dynasty of ancient Egypt from 305 BC until its incorporation into the Roman Republic in 30 BC. [6] [7] Ptolemy, a general and one of the somatophylakes (bodyguard companions) of Alexander the Great, was appointed satrap of Egypt after Alexander's death in 323 BC.
4 days ago · A passage by Philo of Alexandria (20 BC – 50 AD) describes an event where Caligula receives a diplomatic delegation of Alexandrian Jews following civil strife between the Jewish and Greek communities of Alexandria. Philo’s text describes a large garden overlooking the Tiber, separated by a monumental portico.
