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Historical person
born 41 BCE
Alexander Helios was a son of Mark Antony and Cleopatra VII and the twin brother of Cleopatra Selene II. At the Donations of Alexandria in 34 BCE he was proclaimed ruler of Armenia, Media and Parthia, but after his parents’ defeat he was taken to Rome and his later fate is uncertain.
In Michelle Moran’s Cleopatra’s Daughter, after the defeat and deaths of Cleopatra and Mark Antony, their ten-year-old twins Cleopatra Selene and Alexander Helios are taken from Alexandria and displayed in Octavian’s Roman triumph.
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Michelle Moran’s Egyptian Royals Collection follows three royal women whose lives are reshaped by dynastic rupture and imperial power. Nefertiti rises beside Akhenaten during the Amarna religious revolution; Nefertari struggles to overcome that discredited legacy at the court of Ramesses II; and Cleopatra Selene is carried to Rome…
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