Juba II.

Bust of Juba II in the Louvre .

Jubas II coin

Mausoleum of Juba II and Cleopatra Selene in Sidi Rached

Juba II. (* Approx. 50 BC; † 23 AD ) was King of Mauritania from 25 BC. Chr. To 23 AD

Life

Juba was born the son of King Juba I of Numidia . After his father's defeat in the battle of Thapsus (46 BC) against Gaius Julius Caesar , he grew up in Rome , where he received a good upbringing in the care of Octavia , sister of the Roman emperor Augustus . He was born in 25 BC. BC by Augustus, after being granted Roman citizenship , as ruler in the kingdom of Mauritania. Here Juba, who was highly educated, promoted the Hellenistic culture by founding cities.

Juba was also active as a writer and wrote works on Roman history, Arabia and Africa or Libya , among other things . In the latter work he is likely to have incorporated his experiences from a sea expedition to the Canary Islands . Juba received a lot of recognition for his literary achievements, but only fragments of the works have survived. His treatises have been used by Plutarch , Appian and Cassius Dio , among others . Pliny the Elder refers to Juba's works several times in his natural history .

Juba was married to Cleopatra Selene , a daughter of the famous Cleopatra VII , who also grew up in the care of Octavia. After her death he married the widow of 7 BC. The Jewish prince Alexander, the Cappadocian princess Glaphyra, was executed . The connection lasted only a short time, however, since Glaphyra left him to marry the ethnarch Herodes Archelaus , a half-brother of her late husband, who was in love with her.

Jubas and Cleopatra Selene's mausoleum is located near Tipasa . Her son Ptolemy succeeded Juba on the throne.

Text output

The Fragments of the Greek Historians , No. 275

literature

José María Camacho Rojo, Pedro Pablo Fuentes González: Iuba (Juba) II de Maurétanie. In: Richard Goulet (ed.): Dictionnaire des philosophes antiques . Volume 3, CNRS Éditions, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-271-05748-5 , pp. 940-954
Duane W. Roller: The World of Juba II and Cleopatra Selene . Routledge, London / New York 2003.

Web links

Literature by and about Juba II in the catalog of the German National Library

predecessor	Office	successor
Bocchus II	King of Mauritania 25 BC Chr. – 23 AD	Ptolemy

personal data
SURNAME	Juba II.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Iuba II.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	King of Mauritania
DATE OF BIRTH	1st century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	23