Cleopatra Thea (165-121 BC)

Cleopatra Thea

Cleopatra Thea was the daughter  of  Ptolemy  VI and Cleopatra II. She was married in 150 BC to the Syrian fake Alexander I Balas, who was set up as Seleucid swayer with the tending of his father-in-law, but the friends soon fell out. Cleopatra Thea was given  to  his  rival,  Demetrius  II.  Balas  was  overcome  in  battle  by Ptolemy VI in 145 BC, after which he was voted out and Ptolemy gone of injuries. Demetrius II was got in battle with the Parthians in 139  BC,  and  Cleopatra  Thea  joined  his  brother,  Antiochus VII Sidetes, who was himself defeated in battle with the Parthians in 129 BC. Demetrius II was restored but proved unpopular and was downed at Tyre in 126/125 BC. His widow dominated alone or in connexion with her sons by Demetrius II, Seleucus V (allegedly defeated by her), and Antiochus VIII Grypus. She was plainly poisoned by her son in 121/120 BC after her endeavour to murder him had went. Her different son, Antiochus IX Cyzicenus, by Antiochus VII, grown a touch to his half  brother, Antiochus VIII  Grypus.  Both  brothers  married  Ptolemaic  princesses,  the  gone  Cleopatra  IV and  Cleopatra  Selene, and  the  latter  Cleopatra  Tryphaena and  his  brothers  widow, Cleopatra Selene.

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