Daughter of Cleopatra. Princess of Egypt, captive of Rome, queen of Africa

The only daughter of Mark Antony and the queen of Egypt Cleopatra VII, a captive in Rome, wife of the king of Mauritania — the fate of Cleopatra Selene was truly extraordinary. She spent her childhood in Alexandria, accompanied her mother on journeys across the Mediterranean, received an outstanding education: she was to marry well, bear sons, and strengthen the rule of her parents. However, events on the political stage unfolded differently. The life of this remarkable woman is virtuously reconstructed by the outstanding historian and archaeologist Jane Draycott from ancient coins and mosaics, ivory and bronze, transporting the reader from Alexandria to Actium, from the Palatine Hill to North Africa. 'Certainly, Cleopatra Selene will never achieve the glory of her mother, Cleopatra VII. Perhaps it is for the best... The fate that awaited Cleopatra Selene — to be born a princess of one of the oldest kingdoms of the ancient world, to lose her entire family and the title that was her birthright, to become a Roman captive, and finally to accept the crown of a completely different, new state and rule it for two decades — undoubtedly deserves our attention. Thus begins her story' (Jane Draycott).