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Historical person
53 BCE–23
Juba II was a Numidian prince raised in Rome who became a client king of Mauretania under Augustus. Married to Cleopatra Selene II, he promoted cities, scholarship and Mediterranean trade while ruling a kingdom that blended Roman, North African, Greek and Egyptian traditions.
Michelle Moran’s Cleopatra’s Daughter is set 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.
Series
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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