![]() ![]() It is Isis’s guidance that helps Selene win over the people of Mauretania, who begin to see her as the living embodiment of the goddess – just as the people of Egypt saw her mother. ![]() ![]() Selene refuses to let Augustus’s assault ruin her, calling on her patron goddess Isis for strength. Following the wedding, the Roman emperor Augustus, in conjunction with his wife Livia, rapes Selene, and is shocked that she is still a virgin. While Selene cares for Juba, she is afraid to love him, knowing how love destroyed her mother. In the second novel in Dray’s projected trilogy about the young royal, Selene leaves the life she has fought for in Rome to marry her former tutor Juba and to corule the Roman kingdom of Mauretania with him. Song of the Nile: A Novel of Cleopatra’s DaughterĪs daughter of the legendary Queen Cleopatra, Cleopatra Selene has an impressive legacy behind her. ![]()
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