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Ptolemy Ceraunus was expected to be his father's heir, but in 285/4 BCE Ptolemy I chose his youngest son Ptolemy II (whose mother was the fourth wife Berenice I, Eurydice's cousin) instead. [1] Ptolemy Ceraunus and Meleager both consecutively ruled as king of Macedon for a short amount of time before being killed. [1]
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.
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 ...
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.
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.
Wives of Ptolemy I Soter. Pages in category "Wives of Ptolemy I Soter" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
The famous queen, who was crowned Cleopatra VII and reigned from 51 to 30 BC as its last ruler, was the direct descendent of Ptolemy I Soter, bodyguard to Alexander the Great and founder of the ...
Arsinoë was the first daughter of Pharaoh Ptolemy I Soter, founder of the Hellenistic state of Egypt, and his second wife Berenice I of Egypt. [ 5 ] She was maybe born in Memphis , but was raised in the new city of Alexandria , where her father moved his capital. [ 6 ]