198px|Images of King Juba II and Queen Cleopatra Selene II. Juba believed he was a descendant of Sufax.|thumb Sufax (also spelled variously as Sophax , Syphax, Sufaqs , c. ) was a hero or demigod from the Berber and Greek mythologies.Plutarch, The Parallel Lives: The Life of Sertorius Life According to the myth, Sufax was the son of goddess Tinjis from her second marriage to demigod Heracles, and the grandson of god Zeus and mortal Alcmene.Hesiod, Shield of Heracles 1ff.Tzetzes on Lycophron, Alexandra 662 His half-sister was likely Iphinoe, and his half-brother (and possible half-nephew) was Palaemon, son of Iphinoe. Sufax replaced his mother's first husband Antaeus as a guard of the country of the Berbers (or Imazighen).Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2.5.11Hyginus, Fabulae 31 He is said to be the founder of Tangier in memory to his mother.
198px|Images of King Juba II and Queen Cleopatra Selene II. Juba believed he was a descendant of Sufax.|thumb Sufax , Syphax, Sufaqs or Sophax (Ancient Greek: Σόφακος Sophaxus ) was a hero or demigod from the Berber and Greek mythologies.Plutarch, The Parallel Lives: The Life of Sertorius Mythology According to the myth, Sufax was the son of goddess Tinjis from her second marriage to demigod Heracles, and the grandson of god Zeus and mortal Alcmene.Hesiod, Shield of Heracles 1ff.Tzetzes on Lycophron, Alexandra 662 His half-sister was likely Iphinoe, and his half-brother (and possible half-nephew) was Palaemon, son of Iphinoe. Sufax replaced his mother's first husband Antaeus as a guard of the country of the Berbers (or Imazighen).Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2.5.11Hyginus, Fabulae 31 He is said to be the founder of Tangier in memory to his mother.
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