Juba II.

Juba II ( about 50 BC *, † 23 AD ) was King of Mauritania from 25 BC to 23 AD

Life

Juba was born as the son of king Juba I of Numidia. After the defeat of his father at the battle of Thapsus (46 BC) to Gaius Julius Caesar, he grew up in Rome, where he received a good education. He was appointed by Augustus, after award of the Roman civil law, as rulers in the Kingdom of Mauretania (25 BC). Here Juba, who was highly educated, the Hellenistic culture promoted by the foundation of cities.

Juba was also active as a writer and wrote, among other works on Roman history, Arabia and Africa and Libya. In the latter work he may have incorporated his experiences from a Seeexpedition to the Canary Islands. For his literary achievements Juba received much recognition, but only fragments of the works have been preserved ( Fragments of the Greek Historians, No. 275 ). The treatises of Juba have been used, among others, Plutarch, Appian and Cassius Dio; Pliny the Elder in his Natural History refers several times to Juba works.

Juba was with Cleopatra Selene, daughter of the famous Cleopatra VII, married. After her death he married the widow of 7 BC executed Jewish Prince Alexander, the Cappadocian princess Glaphyra. However, the connection was only a short time since Glaphyra left him to marry the love with them ethnarchos Herod Archelaus, a half-brother of her deceased husband.