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Alexander Helios
Alexander Helios ((ギリシア語:Ἀλέξανδρος Ἥλιος); late 40 BC – unknown, but possibly between 29 and 25 BC)〔D. W. Roller, ''The World of Juba II and Kleopatra Selene'', 2003, p. 77''〕 was a Ptolemaic prince and was the eldest son of the Macedonian queen Cleopatra VII of Ptolemaic Egypt by Roman triumvir Mark Antony. Alexander's fraternal twin sister was Cleopatra Selene II. The twins were of Macedonian Greek and Roman heritage. Cleopatra named after her collateral ancestor, Alexander the Great. His second name in Ancient Greek means "Sun"; this was the counterpart of his twin sister’s second name ''Selene'' (Σελήνη), meaning "Moon".
==Life==
Alexander Helios was born and educated in Alexandria. He was the second of Cleopatra's three sons, Caesarion being the oldest. In late 34 BC, at the Donations of Alexandria, he was given the title of "King of Kings". His parents also made him ruler of Armenia, Media, Parthia and any countries yet to be discovered between the Euphrates and Indus Rivers, despite the fact that most of this territory stood outside of their control at that time.〔Plutarch, ''Antony'' 54.6-9; Cassius Dio xlix. 41.1-3; Livy, ''periochae'' 131〕 These areas were, in fact, already ruled by Artaxias II of Armenia (who had been elected King that same year after Antony captured his father Artavasdes II), Artavasdes I of Media Atropatene and Phraates IV of Parthia. In 33 BC, Alexander was engaged to his distant relative Iotapa,〔http://www.tyndalehouse.com/Egypt/ptolemies/affilates/aff_ptolemies.htm〕 a Princess of Media Atropatene and daughter of Artavasdes I. However, Mark Antony and Cleopatra were defeated by Octavian at the Battle of Actium in 31 BC. The next year, they committed suicide as Octavian and his army invaded Egypt. Iotapa left Egypt to return to her father and later married her maternal cousin King Mithridates III of Commagene, who was of Armenian and Greek descent.〔Cassius Dio xlix. 40.2; xlix. 44.1-4; li. 16.2; Plutarch, ''Antony'' 53.12〕
When Octavian conquered Egypt, he spared Alexander, but took him, his sister and his brother Ptolemy Philadelphus from Egypt to Rome. Octavian celebrated his military triumph in Rome by parading the children in heavy golden chains in the streets behind an effigy of their mother clutching an asp to her arm. It is unclear whether Ptolemy Philadelphus survived the journey to Rome, as Cassius Dio only mentions the twins in his ''History of Rome''.〔Cassius Dio li. 21.8〕 Octavian gave the children to Octavia Minor, his elder sister and a former wife of Mark Antony, to be raised under her guardianship in Rome. They were generously received by Octavia, who educated them with her own children.〔Plutarch, ''Antony'' 87.1; Suetonius, ''Augustus'' 17.5〕
The fate of Alexander Helios is unknown. Plutarch, Cassius Dio and Suetonius state that Octavian killed Antony’s son Marcus Antonius Antyllus and Cleopatra's son with Julius Caesar, Caesarion.〔Plutarch, ''Antony'' 81.1 - 82.1; 87.1; Cassius Dio li. 15.5; Suetonius, ''Augustus'' 17.5〕 The only further mention of Alexander Helios and Ptolemy Philadelphus comes from Cassius Dio, who states that when their sister Cleopatra Selene II married King Juba II, Octavian (then named Augustus) spared the lives of Alexander Helios and Ptolemy Philadelphus as a favor to the couple.〔Cassius Dio li. 15.6; compare Plutarch, ''Antony'' 87.1-2〕
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