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Children of Ptolemy I Soter. Pages in category "Children of Ptolemy I Soter" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
Capture of Jerusalem by Ptolemy I Soter. In 321 BC, Perdiccas attempted to invade Egypt, only to fall at the hands of his own men. [15] Ptolemy's decision to defend the Nile against Perdiccas ended in fiasco for Perdiccas, with the loss of 2,000 men. This failure was a fatal blow to Perdiccas' reputation, and he was murdered in his tent by two ...
Ptolemy I Soter (303–282 BC) [17] married first Thaïs, then Artakama, then Eurydice, and finally Berenice I; Ptolemy II Philadelphus (285–246 BC) [18] married Arsinoe I, then Arsinoe II; ruled jointly with Ptolemy Epigonos (267–259 BC) Ptolemy III Euergetes (246–221 BC) married Berenice II; Ptolemy IV Philopator (221–203 BC) married ...
Ptolemy was the eldest son of Ptolemy I Soter, King of Egypt, and his first wife Eurydice, daughter of Antipater, regent of Macedon. His father was a general of Alexander the Great, whom he succeeded, and founded the Ptolemaic dynasty. [4] He was probably born in 319 BC, soon after his parents' marriage, being the first of their six children.
It was founded in 305 BC by the Macedonian general Ptolemy I Soter, a companion of Alexander the Great, and ruled by the Ptolemaic dynasty until the death of Cleopatra VII in 30 BC. [9] Reigning for nearly three centuries, the Ptolemies were the longest and final dynasty of ancient Egypt , heralding a distinctly new era for religious and ...
Philotera was the daughter of Ptolemy I Soter and Berenice I of Egypt. [2] She had one older sister, Arsinoe II, and a younger brother, the future Pharaoh Ptolemy II Philadelphus. [3] From her parents' previous marriages, Philotera had various half-maternal and half-paternal siblings. Little is known of her life.
Lysandra (Greek: Λυσάνδρα, meaning "Liberator, Emancipator"; lived 281 BC) was a Queen of Macedonia, daughter of Ptolemy I Soter to Eurydice or Berenice.. She was married first to her maternal cousin Alexander, one of the sons of Cassander, King of Macedonia.
Berenice was originally from Eordaea. [1] She was the daughter of princess Antigone of Macedon, and an obscure local, a Macedonian nobleman called Magas. [2] Her maternal grandfather was a nobleman called Cassander who was the brother of Antipater, the regent for Alexander's empire, [2] and through her mother was a relation to his family.