Alexander Helios

In 33 BC, Alexander was engaged to his distant relative Iotapa,[10][11] a princess of Media Atropatene and daughter of Artavasdes I.

Iotapa left Egypt to return to her father and later married her maternal cousin King Mithridates III of Commagene, who was of Armenian and Greek descent.

Octavian celebrated his military triumph in Rome by parading the children in heavy gold chains in the streets behind an effigy of their mother clutching an asp to her arm.

[14] Octavian gave the children to Octavia Minor, his elder sister and a former wife of Mark Antony, to be raised under her guardianship in Rome.

[16] The only further mention of Alexander Helios and Ptolemy Philadelphus comes from Cassius Dio, who states that when their sister, Cleopatra Selene II, married King Juba II, Octavian (by then named Augustus) spared the lives of Alexander Helios and Ptolemy Philadelphus as a favor to the couple.

Alexander Helios with his twin sister, adorned by Egyptian and Greek cultural references, e.g. Cleopatra Selene II is crowned with a crescent Moon, referring to her namesake the lunar deity.