Cleopatra Selene of Syria

Cleopatra Selene of Syria

Cleopatra Selene (Greek: Κλεοπάτρα Σελήνη; c. between 135 and 130 – 69 BC) was the Queen consort of Egypt (Cleopatra Selene or Cleopatra V Selene) from 115 to 102 BC, the Queen consort of Syria from 102–92 BC, and the monarch of Syria (Cleopatra II) from 82 to 69 BC. The daughter of Ptolemy VIII Physcon and Cleopatra III of Egypt, Cleopatra Selene was favoured by her mother and became a pawn in Cleopatra III's political manoeuvres. In 115 BC, Cleopatra III forced her son Ptolemy IX to divorce his sister-wife Cleopatra IV, and chose Cleopatra Selene as the new queen consort of Egypt. Tension between the king and his mother grew and ended with his expulsion from Egypt, leaving Cleopatra Selene behind; she probably then married the new king, her other brother Ptolemy X. Following the marriage of the Syrian Seleucid princess Cleopatra I to Ptolemy V of Egypt, dynastic marriages between the two kingdoms became common. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Cleopatra Selene of Syria has received more than 264,052 page views. Her biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Cleopatra Selene of Syria is the 3,324th most popular politician (down from 2,751st in 2019), the 172nd most popular biography from Egypt (down from 145th in 2019) and the 78th most popular Egyptian Politician.

Cleopatra Selene of Syria was the daughter of Cleopatra VII and Mark Antony. She was the queen of Mauretania, the wife of King Juba II, and the mother of King Ptolemy of Mauretania.