Description: Cleopatra's Daughter : From Roman Prisoner to African Queen, Paperback by Draycott, Jane, ISBN 1324095156, ISBN-13 9781324095156, Brand New, Free shipping in the US As the only daughter of Roman Triumvir Marc Antony and Egyptian Queen Cleopatra VII, Cleopatra Selene was expected to uphold traditional feminine virtues; to marry well and bear sons; and to legitimize and strengthen her parents’ rule. Yet with their parents’ deaths by suicide, the princess and her brothers found themselves the inheritors of Egypt, a claim that placed them squarely in the warpath of the Roman ’s DaughterDespite the disrepute of her family, Cleopatra Selene in time endeared herself to her captors through her remarkable intellect and political acumen. Rather than put her to death, Augustus wed her to the Numidian prince Juba, son of the deposed regent Juba I, and installed them both as client rulers of Mauretania in Africa. There, Cleopatra Selene ruled successfully for nearly twenty years, promoting trade, fostering the arts, and reclaiming her mother’s legacy—all at a time, Draycott reminds us, when kingship was an inherently male ’s Daughter
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Book Title: Cleopatra's Daughter : from Roman Prisoner to African Queen
Number of Pages: 352 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Publication Year: 2024
Topic: Royalty, Africa / General, Historical
Item Height: 22.9 in
Genre: Biography & Autobiography, History
Item Weight: 10 oz
Item Length: 14 in
Author: Jane Draycott
Item Width: 24.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
