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Historical person
67 BCE–12 BCE
Octavia the Younger was the sister of Octavian and wife of Mark Antony. Her marriage was intended to stabilise the alliance between Antony and Octavian, and her dignity after Antony’s relationship with Cleopatra made her an important figure in Augustan political representation.
Michelle Moran’s Cleopatra’s Daughter is set after the defeat and deaths of Cleopatra and Mark Antony. Their ten-year-old twins Cleopatra Selene and Alexander Helios are taken from Alexandria and displayed in Octavian’s Roman triumph. Margaret George’s The Memoirs of Cleopatra places Octavia the Younger within a narrative shaped by court politics and dynastic power, family, marriage and personal loyalty, and political ambition and government.
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The Mark Antony series presents a biographical saga of the Roman commander from the Catilinarian crisis to his defeat by Octavian. Antony’s youth is shaped by the execution of his stepfather, service under Aulus Gabinius in Judaea and Egypt, and the campaigns in Gaul that bind him to…
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Michelle Moran’s Egyptian Royals Collection follows three royal women whose lives are reshaped by dynastic rupture and imperial power. Nefertiti rises beside Akhenaten during the Amarna religious revolution; Nefertari struggles to overcome that discredited legacy at the court of Ramesses II; and Cleopatra Selene is carried to Rome…
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