The initial meeting between cleopatra and mark antony bore them with twins, alexander helios and cleopatra selene while the second meeting brought them their third child, ptolemy philadelphos (stritof,n.d.). These children are well provided for by their father,mark antony. They ary given part of the land of rome,including cyprus, crete and syria, through their mother (lewis,2006). This distribution, lead to an even wider gap between octavian and mark antony.