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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]
Ptolemy was born in 367 BC [5] in the ancient kingdom of Macedon. [2] His mother was Arsinoe.According to Satyrus the Peripatetic, Arsinoe was a descendant of Alexander I of Macedon and thus a member of the Argead dynasty, claiming ultimate descent from Heracles.
Artakama [1] or Artacama [2] (Ancient Greek: Ἀρτακάμα; fl. 324 BC) was a Persian noblewoman and the second wife of Ptolemy I Soter, a Macedonian general under Alexander the Great and the first Pharaoh of the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt.
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.
Ptolemy is thought to have commissioned Manetho to compose his Aegyptiaca, an account of Egyptian history, perhaps intended to make Egyptian culture intelligible to its new rulers. [24] Ptolemy's first wife, Arsinoe I, daughter of Lysimachus, was the mother of his legitimate children.
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 ...
Berenice II Euergetis (267 or 266 – 221 BCE; Greek: Βερενίκη Ευεργέτις, Berenikē Euergetis, "Berenice the Benefactress" [4]) was queen regnant of Cyrenaica from 258 to 246 BCE and queen of Ptolemaic Egypt from 246 to 222 BCE as the wife of Ptolemy III. She is sometimes considered co-regent of her Ptolemaic husband. [a]
Ptolemy II was the son of Ptolemy I and his third wife, Berenice I. He was born on the island of Kos in 309/308 BC, during his father's invasion of the Aegean in the Fourth Diadoch War. He had two full sisters, Arsinoe II and Philotera.