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| Hieroglyphic name of Cleopatra V |
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| Cleopatra V |
Cleopatra V Selene (140/135-69 BC) was the daughter of King
Ptolemy VIII and
Cleopatra III. About 116 BC, she married her brother,
Ptolemy IX, afterwards he was special by his mother to dissociate his first wife and their sister,
Cleopatra IV. She stayed in Egypt when her conserve was discharged in 107 BC, and in 103 BC she united her cousin,
Antiochus VIII Grypus, ruler of Syria, son of her aunt Cleopatra Thea, and early husband of her sister, Cleopatra VI Tryphaena. Antiochus VIII Grypus was killed in 96 BC. Cleopatra Selene then married 2 further rulers of Syria, Antiochus IX Cyzicenus (d. 95 BC), cousin of her husband but as well his maternal half brother finished Cleopatra Thea and former husband of her other sister, Cleopatra IV, and in the end her stepson, Antiochus X Eusebes (killed around 89 BC). She plain had two sons by her first husband, whose fate is uncertain, and two sons by her last husband, who aimed to rule in Syria. Cleopatra Selene was seized during an invasion of Syria by Tigranes, king of Armenia, and gone in Seleucia-on-the-Tigris in 69 BC. Because the last Cleopatra V Tryphaena and Cleopatra VI Tryphaena are now involved as identical, Cleopatra Selene is quoted in more recent scholarship as Cleopatra V Selene.
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