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Women of the Ptolemaic Kingdom (305–30 BC). Subcategories. This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 total. 0–9. 1st-century BC Egyptian women (10 P)
[3] [4] As Ptolemy I Soter ("Saviour"), he founded the Ptolemaic dynasty that was to rule Egypt for nearly 300 years. All the male rulers of the dynasty took the name Ptolemy, while princesses and female rulers preferred the names Cleopatra, Arsinoë and Berenice. The Ptolemies also adopted the Egyptian custom of marrying their sisters, with ...
Arsinoë II (Koinē Greek: Ἀρσινόη, c. 316 BC – between 270 and 268 BC) was a Queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom in ancient Egypt.She was previously Queen of Thrace, Anatolia, and Macedonia by marriage to King Lysimachus and later Ptolemy Keraunos.
Ptolemy I and other early rulers of the dynasty were not married to their relatives, the childless marriage of siblings Ptolemy II and Arsinoe II [22] being an exception. The first child-producing incestuous marriage in the Ptolemaic dynasty was that of Ptolemy IV and Arsinoe III, who were succeeded as co-pharaohs by their son Ptolemy V, born ...
Ptolemaic Kingdom: 220 BC 204 BC 16 years [8] Cleopatra I: Pharaoh (disputed) Ptolemaic Kingdom: 193 BC 176 BC 17 years [9] Cleopatra II: Pharaoh Ptolemaic Kingdom: 170 BC 164 BC 51 years (Total) [10] 163 BC 127 BC 124 BC 115 BC Cleopatra III: Pharaoh Ptolemaic Kingdom: c. 139 BC 130 BC c. 35 years (Total) [11] 127 BC 101 BC Berenice III ...
Head of a statuette depicting a Ptolemaic queen as the goddess Isis, possibly Berenice III; Louvre Museum, Paris. In 101 BC, Ptolemy X had Cleopatra III murdered. Shortly after that, he married the thirteen-year-old Berenice and elevated her to the role of co-regent.
Cleopatra II Philometor Soteira (Greek: Κλεοπάτρα Φιλομήτωρ Σώτειρα, Kleopatra Philomētōr Sōteira; c. 185 BC – 116/115 BC) was Queen consort of Ptolemaic Egypt from 175 to 170 BC as wife of Ptolemy VI Philometor, and then Queen regnant since 170 BC as co-ruler with her two successive brother-husbands, her daughter, and her grandson.
Berenice IV Epiphaneia (Ancient Greek: Βερενίκη; 77–55 BC, born and died in Alexandria, Egypt) was ruling Ptolemaic queen and Hellenistic pharaoh of the Ptolemaic kingdom. From 58 to 55 BC, Berenice IV ruled Egypt during the political exile of her father Ptolemy XII Auletes to Rome.