Famous Pharaohs

Cleopatra Thea (165-121 BC)

Cleopatra Thea

Cleopatra Thea was the daughter of Ptolemy VI and Cleopatra II. She was married in 150 BC to the Syrian fake Alexander I Balas, who was set up as Seleucid swayer with the tending of his father-in-law, but the friends soon fell out. Cleopatra Thea was given to his rival, Demetrius II. Balas was overcome in battle by Ptolemy VI in 145 BC, after which he was voted out and Ptolemy gone of injuries. Demetrius II was got in battle with the Parthians in 139 BC, and Cleopatra Thea joined his brother, Antiochus VII Sidetes, who was himself defeated in battle with the Parthians in 129 BC. Demetrius II was restored but proved unpopular and was downed at Tyre in 126/125 BC. His widow dominated alone or in connexion with her sons by Demetrius II, Seleucus V (allegedly defeated by her), and Antiochus VIII Grypus. She was plainly poisoned by her son in 121/120 BC after her endeavour to murder him had went. Her different son, Antiochus IX Cyzicenus, by Antiochus VII, grown a touch to his half brother, Antiochus VIII Grypus. Both brothers married Ptolemaic princesses, the gone Cleopatra IV and Cleopatra Selene, and the latter Cleopatra Tryphaena and his brothers widow, Cleopatra Selene.

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Cleopatra Selene (40 BC-11/7 AD)

Cleopatra Selene was the daughter of Marcus Antonius and Queen Cleopatra VII. Selene was born in 40 BC with her similitude brother, Alexander Helios. She was seized by Augustus in 30 BC and exposed in his rejoice in Rome in 29 BC. She was referred by Octavia, the sister of Augustus and Roman wife of Antonius, and married to King Juba II of Mauretania (modern Morocco) around 20 BC. Cleopatra Selene may have acted as regent for her husband during his absences from the kingdom, and she seems on his coinage. She had leastwise one son, King Ptolemy of Mauretania, who was executed by Caligula in 40 AD and is the last known related of the Ptolemaic dynasty.

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Cleopatra Berenice III (d. 80 BC)

Cleopatra Berenice III

Cleopatra Berenice III was the daughter of Ptolemy IX and Cleopatra IV. She grown the official consort of her uncle, Ptolemy X, after he took over the throne from her father, and been the formers deposition in 88 BC of her father Ptolemy IX. She gone sole ruler of Egypt upon his death in 80 BC but was special by the Romans to bear her first cousin and stepson, Ptolemy XI Alexander II, as her consort. He murdered her within days of their marriage in June 80 BC and was pronto killed himself.

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