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Ptolemy VIII Euergetes (170-163, 145-116)

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Ptolemy VIII Euergetes
Ptolemy VIII Euergetes was the eighth swayer of the Ptolemaic Period. He  prevailed from  170 to 163 B.C.E., and  from  145  B.C.E. until  his dying. The son of Ptolemy V Epiphanes and likely Queen Cleopatra (1), he was visited Physcon, or Fatty. The Roman Scipio Africanus given him that soubriquet. He ruled for a time with Ptolemy VI Philometor and  Cleopatra(2) and  then  established to  take  control, expelling  his  brother.  Rome  settled  the  spot,  and Ptolemy VIII  was  presented  Cyrenaica.  At  the  death  of Ptolemy  VI,  he  put  his  nephew,  Ptolemy VII,  to  death  and  married  Cleopatra (2). He  then  tied  a  niece, Cleopatra(3) and aforethought against his first wife, who was frequent.

As  a  lead  of  court  connive,  Ptolemy  VIII  and Cleopatra (3) fled to Cyprus. There they sent for Memphites, a young son of Cleopatra (2), and murdered him. They cut up the body and saved it to Cleopatra (2) as a birthday present. The couple rendered to Egypt c. 118 B.C.E. and  sent  Cleopatra  (2)  into  exile.  She  died  shortly after, but Cleopatra (3) outlived her husband, who died in 116 B.C.E.

In  118  B.C.E., Ptolemy  VIII  issued  the  Amnesty Decree, an drive to put an end to the conflicts between the clear Egyptians and the Greeks. He was considered a somewhat  bruising  but  magnanimous  helper  of Egyptian temples. At Edfu, he was represented in the company of Egypt's defenders, the goddess Buto and Nekhebet, and his investiture fete was staged there. He is also represented on a wall of Kom Ombo, and he set up a temple at Tod (Djerty), near Erment. Ptolemy VIII developed two Mammisi structures, one at Philae and a support temple of Horus at Edfu.



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