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Selene, along with her brother, her sister and the sky-god Zeus, is one of the few Greek deities of a clear Proto-Indo-European origin, although they were sidelined by later non-PIE newcomers to the pantheon, as remaining on the sidelines became their primary function, to be the minor deities the major ones were juxtaposed to, thus helping keep ...
Cleopatra Selene and her twin Alexander appear briefly in the television series Rome. Selene, córka Kleopatry by Natalia Rolleczek is a novel about Cleopatra Selene and her brothers from the death of their parents until her marriage. Selene is a lead character in Michael Livingston's 2015 historical fantasy novel The Shards of Heaven. [21] [22]
Recorded in Spanish as "Oh No" by her brother A.B. Quintanilla III and his band Kumbia Kings on their debut album Amor, Familia y Respeto (1999), with A.B. Quintanilla III providing the spoken intro and background vocals and Jason "DJ Kane" Cano on lead vocals, and Spanish translation of the lyrics by Luigi Giraldo
The same year, 107 BC, Cleopatra Selene was probably married off to the new king, her younger brother, Ptolemy X. [36] In 103 BC, Ptolemy IX was fighting in Judea. [37] The queen mother feared an alliance against her between Ptolemy IX and his friend Antiochus IX of Syria, who was fighting a civil war with his brother Antiochus VIII; this led ...
In Underworld: Awakening, she tells Selene that her name is Subject 2. She was born without her parents' knowledge during their years of captivity in Antigen. The scientists in the facility told her that her mother was dead and never heard anything about her father. Eve eventually discovered Selene's body and breaks her mother out of cryo ...
Cleopatra II Philometor Soteira (Greek: Κλεοπάτρα Φιλομήτωρ Σώτειρα, Kleopatra Philomētōr Sōteira; c. 185 BC – 116/115 BC) was Queen consort of Ptolemaic Egypt from 175 to 170 BC as wife of Ptolemy VI Philometor, and then Queen regnant since 170 BC as co-ruler with her two successive brother-husbands, her daughter, and her grandson.
Selene is a character and the main protagonist of the Underworld film franchise, in which she is portrayed by Kate Beckinsale.The character is introduced in the first film, Underworld, as an elite vampire assassin known as a "Death Dealer" who hunts down the Lycans for allegedly murdering her family.
Alexander's fraternal twin sister was Cleopatra Selene II. [2] [3] Cleopatra named her son after Alexander the Great. [4] His second name in Ancient Greek means "Sun"; this was the counterpart of his twin sister's second name Selene (Σελήνη), meaning "Moon". [5]