Cleopatra Tryphaena was the daughter girl of Ptolemy VIII and Cleopatra III. She married her first cousin, Seleucid Antiochus VIII Grypus, son of Demetrius II and Cleopatra Thea, but he faced a rival in his stepbrother, Antiochus IX Cyzicenus, who was married to Cleopatra IV, sister of Cleopatra Tryphaena. When Cleopatra IV was enchanted in 113 BC, she was dead at her sisters behest. Cleopatra Tryphaena was then herself popped when she fallen into the hands of Antiochus IX in 112 BC.
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