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Cleopatra V Selene (140/135-69 BC)

Hieroglyphic name:
Hieroglyphic name of Cleopatra V
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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