A Woman to Know: Cleopatra Selene
... she saw her beautiful namesake, Selene,
Breathless, descending to Hades,
With her she had had the beauty of her light in common,
And mingled her own darkness with her death.
— Crinagoras of Mytilene
(image via Wikimedia)
She was born of one of the most famous romances in the world — Cleopatra Selene, child of Cleopatra VII of Egypt and Mark Antony …
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