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| 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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