Hieroglyphic Name:
Ptolemy IX Soter II, byname Lathyrus (expanded 1st century bc), Macedonian king of Egypt (prevailed 116-110, 109-107, and 88-81 bc) who, afterward ruling Cyprus and Egypt in various combining with his brother, Ptolemy X Alexander I, and his mother, Cleopatra III, widow of Ptolemy VIII Euergetes II, advanced sole rule of the country in 88 and sought to keep Egypt from radical Roman influence while hard to develop trade with the East.
The unusual will of Euergetes II partitioned Egypt's ownership, leaving Cleopatra III as the good ruler of Egypt and Cyprus. Although she favorite his younger brother, Ptolemy Alexander, popular opinion forced the dowager queen to fire him and to associate Ptolemy Soter on the throne with herself. After telling the king in 115 to divorce his stubborn sister-queen, Cleopatra IV, his mother special Ptolemy to marry his younger, more pliable sister, Cleopatra Selene. The next year, later his brother was sent to Cyprus as governor, Ptolemy Soter looked with his mother as joint rule of Egypt. The latent antagonism between the son and his mother finally broken in October 110, when Cleopatra discharged him from Egypt and retrieved his brother from Cyprus. Soter II given in early 109 but was evicted anew by his mother in March of the coming year.
After a reconciliation in May 108 he taken flight a third time and given himself in Cyprus, from where in 107 he invaded north Syria to serve one of the claimants to the Seleucid imperium, while his mother, allying herself with the Jewish king in Palestine, actively aided another Seleucid sham. During the extended war his mother died (101) and Ptolemy X Alexander gone the sole ruler of Egypt, while Soter II remained strong in Cyprus.
After Alexanders unpopularity got him from Alexandria a second time and he perished at sea, Soter returned to resume sole rule over Egypt. Lacking a queen, he got back his brothers widow, who was also his own daughter, Berenice III, and linked her on the throne with himself. Shortly earlier Soters return in 88 a essential native rebellion erupted around Thebes in Upper Egypt. Afterward three years of hard fighting Thebes capitulated and was made in retribution.
Ptolemy Soter refused to make aid to the Romans in the run of their war with Pontus, a Black Sea realm, and after the Roman clear of Athens in 88 the Egyptian rulers assisted rebuild the city, for which commemorative statues of them were erected. Ptolemy IX died in 81, leaving his daughter and widow as his replacement.
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The unusual will of Euergetes II partitioned Egypt's ownership, leaving Cleopatra III as the good ruler of Egypt and Cyprus. Although she favorite his younger brother, Ptolemy Alexander, popular opinion forced the dowager queen to fire him and to associate Ptolemy Soter on the throne with herself. After telling the king in 115 to divorce his stubborn sister-queen, Cleopatra IV, his mother special Ptolemy to marry his younger, more pliable sister, Cleopatra Selene. The next year, later his brother was sent to Cyprus as governor, Ptolemy Soter looked with his mother as joint rule of Egypt. The latent antagonism between the son and his mother finally broken in October 110, when Cleopatra discharged him from Egypt and retrieved his brother from Cyprus. Soter II given in early 109 but was evicted anew by his mother in March of the coming year.
After a reconciliation in May 108 he taken flight a third time and given himself in Cyprus, from where in 107 he invaded north Syria to serve one of the claimants to the Seleucid imperium, while his mother, allying herself with the Jewish king in Palestine, actively aided another Seleucid sham. During the extended war his mother died (101) and Ptolemy X Alexander gone the sole ruler of Egypt, while Soter II remained strong in Cyprus.
After Alexanders unpopularity got him from Alexandria a second time and he perished at sea, Soter returned to resume sole rule over Egypt. Lacking a queen, he got back his brothers widow, who was also his own daughter, Berenice III, and linked her on the throne with himself. Shortly earlier Soters return in 88 a essential native rebellion erupted around Thebes in Upper Egypt. Afterward three years of hard fighting Thebes capitulated and was made in retribution.
Ptolemy Soter refused to make aid to the Romans in the run of their war with Pontus, a Black Sea realm, and after the Roman clear of Athens in 88 the Egyptian rulers assisted rebuild the city, for which commemorative statues of them were erected. Ptolemy IX died in 81, leaving his daughter and widow as his replacement.
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