The author of a new biography looks closely at the woman who continued the Ptolemaic dynasty beyond Egypt’s borders.
Cleopatra Selene, the daughter of Cleopatra VII, Queen of Egypt, and Marcus Antonius (known as Mark Antony), Roman consul and triumvir, was born in 40 BCE. This made her around ten years old when the civil war between her father and his fellow triumvir Gaius Julius...