She had four children
One of the interesting facts about Cleopatra is that she had four children. Cleopatra's three surviving children, Cleopatra Selene II, Alexander Helios, and Ptolemy Philadelphos, were taken to Rome to be guarded by Octavian's sister Octavia the Younger, a former wife of their father. Caesarion, Cleopatra's alleged child with Caesar, was born on June 23, 47 BC, and was originally named "Pharaoh Caesar," according to a stele at Memphis' Serapeum. Caesar stayed publicly silent about Caesarion, possibly because of his still childless marriage with Calpurnia. Cleopatra, on the other hand, made numerous official declarations naming Caesar as Caesarion's father. Caesarion was executed by the Roman emperor Augustus following her suicide.
Cleopatra Selene II and Alexander Helios were present during Octavian's Roman triumph in 29 BC. After this time, the fates of Alexander Helios and Ptolemy Philadelphus are unknown. Cleopatra Selene II was engaged to Juba II, son of Juba I, whose North African kingdom of Numidia had been transformed into a Roman province by Julius Caesar in 46 BC due to Juba I's backing of Pompey. After their wedding in 25 BC, the emperor Augustus established Juba II and Cleopatra Selene II as the new rulers of Mauretania, where they transformed the old Carthaginian city of Iol into their new capital. Cleopatra Selene II brought many renowned intellectuals, artists, and counselors from her mother's royal court in Alexandria to Caesarea, which is today infused with Hellenistic Greek culture. In recognition of their Ptolemaic dynasty background, she also called her son Ptolemy of Mauretania.
Cleopatra Selene II died in 5 BC, and when Juba II died in 23/24 AD, his son Ptolemy replaced him. Ptolemy was eventually executed by the Roman emperor Caligula in 40 AD, possibly on the grounds that he had illegally coined his own royal coinage and used regalia designated for the Roman emperor. Ptolemy of Mauretania was the last known Ptolemaic ruler, while Queen Zenobia of the short-lived Palmyrene Empire during the Third Century Crisis claimed ancestry from Cleopatra. A Cleopatra cult existed as late as 373 AD, when Petesenufe, an Egyptian writer of the Book of Isis, explained that he gold-plated the image of Cleopatra.
