Cleopatra Selene II was captured as a child after her famous parents, Cleopatra VII and Mark Antony, were defeated by Octavian at Actium in 30 BC. Her half-brother Caesarion was executed, while she and her brothers, Alexander Helios and Ptolemy Philadelphus, were paraded in Rome during a triumph. Under the care of Octavia the Younger, she survived whereas her brothers eventually vanished from history. Later, marrying Numidian prince Juba II, she became queen of Mauretania, celebrated for promoti