Cleopatra's Daughter - Cleopatra Selene II

Welcome to our channel! In this video, we'll be exploring the fascinating life and legacy of Cleopatra Selene II, one of the most intriguing women of the ancient world.
Born in 40 BC as the daughter of the legendary Egyptian queen Cleopatra VII and the Roman general Mark Antony, Cleopatra Selene II was destined for greatness from the start. Despite the tragic end of her parents' lives, she managed to survive and thrive in a world of political intrigue, cultural clashes, and imperial ambitions.
As a young girl, Cleopatra Selene II was taken to Rome as a captive of the victorious emperor Augustus. However, instead of being humiliated or oppressed, she was raised as a royal princess in the imperial household, educated in the finest arts and sciences, and eventually married to Juba II, the king of Mauretania.
Together, Cleopatra Selene II and Juba II formed a powerful and enlightened partnership, promoting learning, exploration, and cultural exchange in their realm and beyond. They wrote books, patronized scholars, collected artifacts, and even sent expeditions to discover new lands and natural wonders.
However, their reign was not without challenges and tragedies. They had to face rebellions, wars, and personal losses, including the untimely death of their only son. Yet, they persevered and left a lasting legacy that still echoes in the history and culture of North Africa and the Mediterranean world.
In this video, we'll delve into the life and times of Cleopatra Selene II, examining her family background, her education, her marriage, her accomplishments, and her influence on the ancient world.
We also see the face of her son and the last Roman client king and ruler of Mauretania for Rome, Ptolemy of Mauretania.

[@legionarybooks13]

This was fantastic! Loved the artistic recreations of how Selene, Juba, and Ptolemy looked. Given that Juba allowed his son to be named Ptolemy tells of the influence his wife had over him and his respect for her. Through her father, Mark Antony, Cleopatra Selene was half-sister of Antonia Minor, making her an aunt of Germanicus, Livilla, and the future-Emperor Claudius. This also means her son, Ptolemy, was cousin of the very man who had him murdered, Gaius Caligula, the son of Germanicus.

[@cindelaura2]

I recently found your channel. Absolutely breathtaking for me. You learn about these people as historical figures...like characters in a play from the past. Seeing them brought to life reminds me they were real people who looked like me or people I know. What you are doing is amazing to me and a gift. Thank you so much💜

[@Clintandilamusic]

Finally… I’d always adored Cleopatra, so imagine my surprise when I read she had a daughter that I was blessed to have her name. I studied Selene (my middle name) by reading books, staying inquisitive and more books! I never thought in future years I’d get to see the Face from all the history books I’d read. I imagined what she could have looked like, I’m simply gobsmacked. You have no idea how much identity I found researching Cleopatras family lineage, but now SEEING Selene is absolutely full circle. Her story is a triumphant one and needs to be honored. I am beyond grateful for this. Many thanks 🙏 for making this dream a reality. This means a LOT to me. ❤just amazing. ila Selene

[@Jules-oo4rr]

Your kidding right admired married to brother sicko

[@Clintandilamusic]

@@Jules-oo4rr 😂

[@aurraliite]

Very interesting. It's a part of history we don't usually hear about. Thank you for sharing.

[@joanware6473]

I had never heard of Selene 11, thank you, you do very well educating us on the people we never really look into, thank goodness for your channel, it is always stunning.

[@judigordon6282]

Thank you for all your hard work. I love the mini history lesson and bring to life the people of the world.

[@markp44288]

This was great. I just added a coin of Juba II to my collection.

[@laken1804]

When the face started to transpose on the marble statue, it was the creepiest feeling, with the eyes suddenly appearing as if it's coming to life.

[@alexeygrankin8203]

I am always surprised to hear of this historical figure and ruler in the Ancient Egypt , it is likely, it is rare to know of that. And I know ,their parents were Cleopatra VII Philopator and Mark Anthony well in any case. I don't or didn't imagine they had this daughter, but I certainly know Cleopatra VII was the mother of her son Caesarion from Julius Caesar, Roman dictator as lovers anyway. Well, this video clip about Cleopatra Selene II is wonderfully great. As I cordially respect your big interest in Ancient Egypt history 😀❤🙏. Of course I thank you very much for everything about this story of her (Cleopatra Selene II). With my honest heart, good loyalty.... Keep doing your best!!!

[@joscott6476]

Absolutely splendiferous !! It’s one age that I know nothing about so thank you for sharing !! 💕

[@panagiotisconstantinou]

You are so welcome! Thank you mate.

[@BigNews2021]

Amazing work, you really brought them back to life.

[@kenmercadante4565]

I would love to see your recreations of the entire Ptolemaic dynasty (and the Seleucids, too, since they were so intertwined). I know you've done a lot of them already, but there's several in the middle and later periods who have reasonably good marble busts and would be good candidates for your process. Some other artists have attempted them, but their work is... well, let's just say they still need work.

[@panagiotisconstantinou]

Indeed, though we really don't know what Cleopatra VII looked like, as we are not 100% sure that the busts we have are hers. Yet I believe it's possible to somehow combine all the Ptolemaic rulers of her bloodline and produce an average image of hers.

[@kenmercadante4565]

@@panagiotisconstantinou Not just Cleopatra VII, but Ptolemy VI-XII (not sure which is the last one you already rendered) and their siblings and spouses (which should be really efficient since they're the same people :) ).

[@youisastar3246]

​@@panagiotisconstantinou interracial relationships doesn't seem to have been a problem at the time because Cleopatra Selene was married to Juba, a non-white man. Is there a reason why Shakespeare depicted Othello, the moor as a very dark-skinned man? It indicates that the Berbers of the time were very different to the people they are today. And Julius Caesar even had an affair with Eunoë, the Queen of the Numidian King.

[@yoroshikuonegaishimasu8649]

​@@youisastar3246 when Shakespeare was alive the moroccans were already defeated and left spain, he never saw a moroccan in his life and he was and englishman

[@youisastar3246]

@@yoroshikuonegaishimasu8649 he never saw but he certainly heard about them and saw paintings of them. Many of the mediaeval books have been lost. There are many engravings of Cleopatra and the Ptolemies made during the mediaeval period from objects such as medallions which are lost but the engravings remain even today. About the Berbers, it's interesting because Algerians were depicted in ancient Egyptian art with white skin whereas many of the other communities who weren't yet Islamic were probably non-white ethnicities. If you didn't know, Muslim people intermarry over long distances. This is why some Bangladeshis are light-skinned and Afghan-looking whereas others are very dark with Bengalic features which they originally are.

[@SarahDJ04]

Fabulous as always 👌

[@panagiotisconstantinou]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@lb8141]

Sir your talent is beyond compare. Your videos move me.

[@panagiotisconstantinou]

Wow, thank you

[@ThalesGMota]

King Juba I of Mauritânia It’s A interesting History.

[@wednesdayschild3627]

She was beautiful. Legend says Selene is the ancestress of Queen Zenobia and St. Zenobius. Zenobia married a Roman senator and had many daughters that became Roman nobility.

[@notanemoprog]

Great job!

[@panagiotisconstantinou]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@eugeniastravels8954]

Absolutely fascinating!

[@ThalesGMota]

Thanks To This Video.

[@heinrichkemmler5695]

Superbe !

[@nealjohnson2447]

So first I love your channel, always has good info and the bringing history to life is a great way to picture history as reality and not just stories we are told. With that being said how bout some narration? These videos are kinda my wind down and my eyes are to tired to read much of the time so would be awesome if I could just listen Just a suggestion

[@mrscanlan.5016]

Great great videos as always, really like the Roman and Greek people from the ancient times, Was thinking could you could do one of these videos on her twin brother Alexander Helios, from his Bust

[@user-yq1rr1mo1t]

Algeria has the greatest history in north africa 🇩🇿🇩🇿

[@gmd3d691]

fascinating insights into history I was unaware of, brilliant work

[@panagiotisconstantinou]

Thanks mate!😃

[@eugeniastravels8954]

Spectacular!!! Have you ever recreated Alexander's mother Queen Olympias & Marc Anthony? Thanks.

[@Giselle-np1xo]

It’s crazy how Selene looks like Messalina (Mark Antony’s great granddaughter) in your other video. Mark Antony’s genes are STRONG 💪 😂

[@beckynelson6786]

Very interesting and well done.

[@onlythetruth4039]

Why no one talked about that instead of fighting about race,skin color.?

[@amberfur5750]

This gives me chills

[@BeverlyChandran-h5f]

I just saw the documentary on Netflix about Cleopatra and wondered what happened to the daughter; turns out she was a lot like her mother. Cleopatra was very smart with a lot of tenacity. She really went through a lot and made some very tough decisions. May she Rest In Power, her and her daughter Salene.

[@tollehouse1]

Great video

[@icecorpuz9300]

Saddest part was she doesn’t know where her mothers tomb or what really happen to the body😢

[@fredrickmarsiello4395]

She was incredibly beautiful.

[@Believer7yrr]

So great to see them

[@erc621]

My father Dna Is Haplogroup G1 a Persian and Phoenician DNA, my grandfather and my father they was born on Gargano Mount in Northern Apulia in front of Balkans, in the smallville where they was born lived a macedonian tribe called Paiones in the past ages , and Tolomei's Dinasty Is from Maecedonia too, so It could be possible I descent from Cleopatra VII Philopator but also from her daughter Cleopatra Selene ?

[@cannett8966]

What an interesting thought! Considering how long ago this was, you may well be. Cee, from the little haunted cottage in ireland 💚💚💚🍀🍀🍀

[@erc621]

@@cannett8966 nice to meet you, I Always loved Ireland

[@erc621]

@@cannett8966 on Gargano Mount in Northern Apulia there are Dolmen and Menhir too

[@kaneis915]

Paiones were not macedonians but their enemies. They lived in north of macedonia, where now the slavic nation of skopia is... Ptolemaic dynasty has not descendants in Greece since they lived in Egypt and their last descendants lived, as you see in this video, in africa and rome.

[@erc621]

@@kaneis915 Paiones lived in Macedonia and in Bisanum Village in Northern Apulia on Gargano Mount

[@hostiliscivitas]

Netflix just left the room

[@kolaxx7183]

Ptoleme and his father Juba II need more curly hair lol. CAN you do the same things with Numidian dynasty, King Juba I, Massinissa, jugurtha…

[@margomoore4527]

Selene also had more curly hair (natural or set) in her statue. I do applaud the short haircuts (sans wigs) of all three in that hot climate!

[@nodruj8681]

Their busts dont show curly hair, and if your trying to say they were black.. don't embarrass yourself

[@misterb6416]

Oh I don't know, Netfix is now saying that Cleopatra was black. Of course she was not black.

[@robertleon4323]

well no, although this is not Cleopatra VII it is her daughter

[@lashawnduckett-murray9394]

Nah…she was from the Middle East/Northern Africa. She was as white as pure driven snow.🙄

[@lashawnduckett-murray9394]

@sunmoonlightning she was Greek AND PERSIAN. I am a light skinned mixed American and my daughter is half Middle Eastern and wayyy darker then me. I’m sure Cleopatra also spent a lot of time in the Sun…so she could have also been dark. But she sure didn’t look like Elizabeth Taylor. Personally I think this is some made up 🐂💩. It’s acting. Who cares who plays someone in a story as long as it gets told? It’s happened at school plays since they’ve been having them.

[@nabuyabrenner5584]

I was saying this all along Where does the pple get this info about This beautiful Queen being black look at her children That's not black . They even discovered she had reddish brown hair.well look at her daughter 😮

[@nabuyabrenner5584]

​@@lashawnduckett-murray9394Agree 💯

[@bellalana9087]

I visited it it in my local country Algeria in tipaza we called it the catholic Tomb

[@erc621]

Also because Haplogroup G1 also called Haplogroup G-M285 Is a Phoenician DNA too , Carthagians in the Northern Africa are Phoenicians so semitic tribe

[@immuslimisupportqatar7591]

she was queen of Mauritania Kingdom not numidia because Numidia become a part of Mauritania

[@erc621]

But Haplogroup G1 is also. Persian Dna and I know Macedonia had a Persian invasion through Achemenide Dinasty and in Egypt too

[@seto5896]

A descendência de cleopatra encerrou com Ptolomy of Mauretania ?

[@LuisaPanfelo]

She marry Juba, the Amazigh King of Roman Empire!

[@leadoucet1432]

Is this the Caesarea near Haifa in Israel?

[@markp44288]

No, there were many cities by that name.

[@almorad981]

No, the Caesarea in question is in modern day Algeria, its actual name is Cherchell.

[@ahmedaoulmi2136]

Caesarea and Haifa are Palestinian cities there's nothing called Israel

[@antonius_006]

I don't think she looked like that . There are other very different images of her.

[@davidtendero9822]

On dirai la version féminine de Marc Antoine

[@sonu2335]

Do you take help from AI to make facial reconstructions?

[@luke2425]

The farthest in history of Cleopatra's bloodline was 79 ad

[@ThalesGMota]

Eventually Emperor Claudius Torned The Mauritânia A Roman Province.

[@taradeviwest9351]

Non of Cleopatra daughters look like Elizabeth Taylor, arrggghh my fantasy ruined🙄🙄

[@SonyaOutThere]

The sad truth about the pharaohs is that they were heavily inbred (through brother and sister pairings) and even had some weird features. Both Cleopatra and her daughter had unusually short foreheads and big noses.

[@erc621]

This kind of DNA called Haplogroup G1 is very rare in Italy, there's nowhere in Italy, Just only on Gargano Mount in Northern Apulia in front of Balkans

[@user-ru1ki]

I beg your pardon, what exactly are you talking about ?

[@erc621]

@@user-ru1ki I'm talking about you're reading

[@user-ru1ki]

@@erc621 I'm sorry what is " I'm talking about you're reading "?

[@erc621]

@@user-ru1ki about my grandfather's Dna because Is the same DNA Tolomei Dinasty and his descendants and ancestors

[@user-ru1ki]

@@erc621 Alright. So you must be their descendant. If Chingis Han can have millions why can't they.

[@user-kk7uv4qq7h]

ساليني

[@KingMistaReacts]

No way a king of Numidia looked like that Ijs 🤷🏿‍♂️

[@athtarasterios9695]

Cope! There are plenty of marble statues of him as well as coins. Get your own history instead of trying to steal other's. Afro-centrists are the most pathetic people in existence.

[@Amine06200]

IOR

[@user-kk7uv4qq7h]

خليهم يتسالوم

[@ChalcedonXXX]

A very beautiful woman. And a very modern haircut too.

[@nabuyabrenner5584]

Yes I agree 💯 really suited her.❤

[@erc621]

So I could be a directly descendant from Cleopatra Selene's son called Tolomeo of Mauretania?

[@user-ru1ki]

How ?

[@user-ow1qs7jo7f]

Delusional

[@erc621]

@@user-ru1ki through my father ancestors

[@erc621]

@@user-ow1qs7jo7f why did you Say this?

[@user-ow1qs7jo7f]

@@erc621 i live 20km away from where King Juba and Cleopatra Selene were buried. By your logic i could also be theit descendant 😂 woman grow up

[@Harley_Qwynn]

Was Cleopatra a common name?!🤷🏽‍♀️🎭

[@panagiotisconstantinou]

It was in the Ptolemaic Dynasty, the women were usually named Cleopatra and the males Ptolemy. They would practice incest so they could keeep their Greek-Macedonian bloodline pure.

[@blueviper85]

It was a common name among the Ptolemaic dynasty. The males tended to be named Ptolemy and the females were usually named Arsineo, Berenice, or Cleopatra.

[@Harley_Qwynn]

@@panagiotisconstantinou Is that why she had a horse head? Inbreeding? I love these videos sooo much. They really make my day. Thank you so much for sharing!💛🙋🏽‍♀️🤗🎭

[@Harley_Qwynn]

@@panagiotisconstantinou Where I come from we have parades and streets named after all of these ancient rulers. That's why I know how to pronounce Ptolemy. 😬🙋🏽‍♀️🤗🎭

[@ATtravel666]

@@panagiotisconstantinou Also incest was a common practice in Ancient Egypt before the Ptolemies.

[@nabuyabrenner5584]

Cleopatra even had red hair.😅.. where does the blackness comes from and the Afro hair type 🤦🏼

[@wengercleopatra2150]

Selene was a doormat

[@Harley_Qwynn]

I'm pretty sure Cleopatra was murdered.🙋🏽‍♀️🎭

[@panagiotisconstantinou]

This is about Cleopatra's VII daughter, Cleopatra Selene II ... and no, the famous Cleopatra wasn't murdered.

[@Harley_Qwynn]

@@panagiotisconstantinou Perhaps not, but the whole "asp to the heart" part is rubbish. I will cede only that she may have been poisoned, but Marc Anthony's Cleopatra did NOT kill herself. 🙋🏽‍♀️🤗🎭

[@ATtravel666]

@@Harley_Qwynn Augustus was indifferent to whether Cleopatra lived or died. If she lived she would be paraded in Octavian's triumphal parade for victory over Egypt in Rome. Dead, she could not be the focus of resistance. But, Cleopatra had seen Roman triumphal parades and that was the one humiliation that the proud queen was desperate to avoid. She killed herself, how precisely is open to question, that she did is not. No ancient source, either contemporary or later (when it would be safer to make accusations of murder), suggested that Octavian murdered her.

[@Harley_Qwynn]

@@ATtravel666 😂🎭

[@ATtravel666]

One other point on contemporary sources. Caesarion, son of Julius Caesar & Cleopatra, was murdered by Augustus in the aftermath of his capture of Alexandria. The contemporary sources had no problem describing his murder, so why would they not say that Cleopatra had been murdered by Octavian if that happened?

[@erc621]

Maybe that's why my face Just like Queen Cleopatra VII Philopator?

[@seto5896]

Caramba , você parece a Cleopatra mesmo , é real sua ancestralidade com ela ?

[@erc621]

@@seto5896 si es real

[@erc621]

@@seto5896 e' real mi ancestralidade com ela

[@seto5896]

@@erc621 você descende de algum dos filhos dela ? Que foram levados a Roma por Otaviano ?

[@seto5896]

@@erc621 Cleopatra é umas das personagens mais incríveis e fascinantes da história para mim , meu sonho seria conhecê la de perto viva , para entender como ela era . Não podendo conhecê-la , me sinto profundamente em extase , assustado por está em contato com uma descendente dela , é históricamente incrível saber que estou conversando com um pedaço da cleopatra contido em você. Sou brasileiro , logo descendente de portugueses que foi uma província romana

[@tollehouse1]

Need more curly hair

[@RPe-jk6dv]

nordic race.

[@wankawanka3053]

Not even close

[@cynbee8656]

This is strong proof that other people history is not so great because if it were, people wouldn't try to claim black history and black culture in Africa at that...this is comical.

[@panagiotisconstantinou]

Mate this is about North Africa not Sub Saharan Africa. The people who live in those areas are different.

[@hmao4466]

​@@panagiotisconstantinou well said.

[@chatonmignon8724]

The Amazigh native north african are not black.

[@user-ow1qs7jo7f]

As a native north African you make me laugh 😂

[@chatonmignon8724]

Her mother was greek and the father Romain and she married Juba 2 a berber king. So no black people !