Biography of Alexander Helios

“Born of empire and eclipse, I was meant to rise beside the Moon—until history forgot the Sun.”

Born in 40 BCE, Alexander Helios was the first son of Cleopatra VII, last Pharaoh of Egypt, and Roman triumvir Mark Antony. A fraternal twin to Cleopatra Selene II, his name was chosen as a cosmic counterpart—Helios the Sun to Selene the Moon. In the grand spectacle of the Donations of Alexandria, he was crowned ruler of Armenia and Media, draped in golden robes and presented as a living symbol of a united Hellenistic and Egyptian empire.

Yet the brilliance of his youth was dimmed by conquest. After the fall of Alexandria and the deaths of his parents, Alexander and his siblings were paraded in chains through Rome by Octavian, a cruel reversal of their coronation. What had been crowns became shackles, what had been destiny became a weapon of humiliation. The boy who was once the rising sun of Cleopatra’s dynasty was reduced to a captive ornament of empire.

Where his sister Selene adapted and endured, Alexander carried the fire of rebellion—his spirit a dangerous ember the Romans could not extinguish. History records that Alexander Helios vanished into obscurity, swallowed by the politics of empire. But he endures as the Sun Prince: a child of twilight whose inheritance was stolen, whose spirit refused to dim, and whose myth lingers as both warning and promise. He stands as a symbol of eclipse—of what is lost to history and what yet burns in shadow.

Positions held

Prince

Aliases of Alexander Helios

Titles of Alexander Helios