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  Ptolemaic Dynasty - Ptolemy I - XV
Cleopatra III was the niece of Physcon (Ptolemy VIII Euergetes II) and was married to him while her mother was still his official wife.
Cleopatra III & Alexander I were co-rulers of the Ptolemaic Dynasty after Cleopatra had driven out her older son, Ptolemy IX Soter II (Lathyros), after accusing him of trying to kill her.
Cleopatra Berenice was the daughter of Lathyros (Ptolemy IX Soter II) and was married to Ptolemy X Alexander I. After the death of Alexander, she ruled for about one year alone.
www.crystalinks.com /ptolemaic.html   (1794 words)

  
 Cleopatra- Famous Egyptians - Queen of Egypt - lover of Julius Ceasar and Mark Anthony.
Cleopatra was never in fact the sole ruler of Egypt; she only co-ruled with her father, brother, brother-husband, and son.
Cleopatra VII was Greek and born in Alexandria, Egypt, took the throne alone at the death of her father Ptolemy XII in spring 51 BC.
Cleopatra arrived in great state, and so charmed Antony that he chose to spend the winter of 42 BC—41 BC with her in Alexandria.
www.suziemanley.com /famous_egyptians/cleopatra_7.htm   (583 words)

  
 Egypt: Rulers, Kings and Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt: Cleopatra VII & Ptolemy XIII
Cleopatra was born in 69 BC in Alexandria, Egypt.
According to Egyptian law, Cleopatra was forced to have a consort, who was either a brother or a son, no matter what age, throughout her reign.
Cleopatra and Antony's son, Ptolemy Philadelphos was named King of Syria and Asia Minor at the age of two.
interoz.com /egypt/cleopatr.htm   (2922 words)

  
 Egypt: Rulers, Kings and Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt: Cleopatra VII & Ptolemy XIII
Cleopatra was born in 69 BC in Alexandria, Egypt.
According to Egyptian law, Cleopatra was forced to have a consort, who was either a brother or a son, no matter what age, throughout her reign.
Cleopatra and Antony's son, Ptolemy Philadelphos was named King of Syria and Asia Minor at the age of two.
www.interoz.com /egypt/cleopatr.htm   (2922 words)

  
 Antony and Cleopatra
Caesar wants Cleopatra to drive Antony from Egypt or kill him, and he thinks women are always easy to bribe because of their devotion to self-interest.
Enobarbus tells Cleopatra that Antony was to blame for the defeat because of his devotion to her.
Caesar's messenger Thidius tells Cleopatra it is known that she was forced to stay with Antony (wink wink), and when Cleopatra seems to agree with this political cover story, Enobarbus is convinced all have deserted Antony.
www.wsu.edu /~delahoyd/shakespeare/a&c3.html   (1310 words)

  
 Ptolemy VIII Euergetes II
This forced Cleopatra and her young son to take refuge in Memphis, but soon a reconciliation was arranged and she agreed to marry her brother in order to protect her son's interests.
Cleopatra II was greatly loved by the people of Egypt because the reign of her late husband had been seen as a good one in Egypt.
Cleopatra offered the throne of Egypt to Demetrius II Nicator, but he got no further than Pelusium, and by 127 Cleopatra left for Syria and the protection of her daughter, Cleopatra Thea, leaving Alexandria to hold out for another year.
www.touregypt.net /featurestories/ptolemyviii.htm   (1532 words)

  
 Cleopatra III
3113, where Cleopatra III is named in the dating formula as the "beneficient" but not yet as queen.
The full title she gave herself as senior ruler is "the mother-loving goddess, the saviour, mistress of justice, bringer of victory".
Berenice, wife of Psherenptah II High Priest of Memphis, was probably born in her reproductive years, so cannot be excluded as a possible sixth child.
www.tyndale.cam.ac.uk /Egypt/ptolemies/cleopatra_iii.htm   (1538 words)

  
 Enjoying "Antony and Cleopatra" by William Shakespeare
Cleopatra is probably the most interesting woman of her era, with enormous talent and energy, and major player in her own right on the world stage.
Cleopatra was fluent in 9 languages, and had already had a personal army that was loyal to her during the infighting that preceded the Roman conquest of Egypt.
Scene III: Cleopatra sends one of her ladies to Antony with the instruction to see what kind of mood he is in, and tell him that Cleopatra is in the opposite.
www.pathguy.com /ac.htm   (2201 words)

  
 Egypt: Tour Egypt Monthly: Queens of Egypt, part III - Celopatra
Cleopatra was that last sovereign of the Macedonian dynasty, and though with no Egyptian blood, she proclaimed herself as "Daughter of Ra", the "Sun God of Egypt".
Cleopatra supported the later by a fleet of 50 ships and 500 men, which was not accepted by the Alexandrians.
Cleopatra was hailed as "Queen of the Queens" and Caesarion as "King of the Kings".
www.touregypt.net /magazine/mag04012001/magf4.htm   (2127 words)

  
 SparkNotes: Antony and Cleopatra: Act III, scenes iv–vii
Cleopatra plans to go into battle alongside Antony and responds angrily to Enobarbus’s suggestion that her presence will be a distraction.
Just as Cleopatra and her barge are a vision of decadent beauty in the earlier speech, so is the image of the queen and her lover in the marketplace of Alexandria.
Antony and Cleopatra draws distinctions between the West and the East by illustrating the West as sober, military, and masculine, and the East as exotic, pleasure-loving, and sexual.
www.sparknotes.com /shakespeare/antony/section5.rhtml   (1142 words)

  
 Cleopatra I
Spring/Summer 222: Revolt of Molon, marriage of Antiochus III and Laodice (Polybius 5.43).
Polybius 8.23.3 notes a Mithridates, described as a "biological son" of Antiochus III's sister, i.e., in Ogden's opinion, the Antiochis who was married to king Xerxes of Armenia in 212, as described in Polybius 8.23.5.
Ogden suggests (a) that the phrase "biological son" indicates that he was adopted by Antiochus III, or (b) that the phrase indicates that Mithridates was the son of an incestuous union between Antiochus III and Antiochis.
www.tyndale.cam.ac.uk /Egypt/ptolemies/cleopatra_i.htm   (2270 words)

  
 Christian History Handbook: Ancient: Appendix III   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Cleopatra III came in person with more troops commanded by a Jewish general named Ananias, one of the sons of Onias, the Jewish priest of the Temple at Leontopolis in Egypt.
The affairs of Cleopatra III and Lathyros in South Syria are discussed elsewhere.
Cleopatra III died in 101 and the Ptolemy X Alexander I was killed in a Alexandrian riot in 87 BC.
www.sbuniv.edu /~hgallatin/ht3463aa03.html   (9844 words)

  
 Cleopatra Selene - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
There were two important women known as Cleopatra Selene.
Cleopatra Selene (I), daughter of Ptolemy VIII of Egypt and Cleopatra III of Egypt, wife of Ptolemy IX of Egypt and (possibly) Ptolemy X of Egypt.
Cleopatra VIII, daughter of Cleopatra VII of Egypt and Marc Antony, wife of Juba II of Numidia, Queen of Mauretania.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cleopatra_Selene   (122 words)

  
 Cleopatra III of Egypt
Cleopatra III (Greek:Κλεοπάτρα, 161-101 BC) was Queen of Egypt 142-101 BC.
She was born in 161 BC to Ptolemy VI and Cleopatra II of Egypt.
In an attempt to gain control of Cleopatra II, Ptolemy VIII Euergetes II "Physcon" married her.
www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Bios/CleopatraIII.html   (299 words)

  
 CNN - Sphinx of Cleopatra's father emerges from waves - October 29, 1998
Goddio, president of the Paris-based European Institute of Underwater Archaeology, was presenting the results of a third year of exploration of the sunken royal quarter of the ancient city founded by Alexander the Great in 331 BC.
The city, where the lives of Cleopatra, Julius Caesar and Mark Antony intertwined, disappeared beneath the sea more than 1,600 years ago after a series of earthquakes and flood waves.
Cleopatra, born in 69 BC, was 17 when her father died.
cnn.com /TECH/science/9810/29/cleopatra.sphinx   (614 words)

  
 Cleopatra III
Cleopatra III: queen of the Ptolemaic Empire, ruled from 116 to 101, first with Ptolemy IX Soter Lathyros, later with Ptolemy X Alexander.
Daughters: Cleopatra IV (married to Ptolemy IX), Cleopatra V Selene (married to Ptolemy IX), Tryphaena (married to Antiochus VIII Grypus)
Cleopatra tries to gain support from the native population; she presents herself as the goddess Isis and the goddess Maat.
www.livius.org /cg-cm/cleopatra01/cleopatra_iii.html   (412 words)

  
 Cleopatra II
Cleopatra II (Greek:Κλεοπάτρα, c.185 BC - 116) was a queen of Egypt, and the daughter of Ptolemy V and Cleopatra I. Following the death of their mother (175), she was married to her brother, Ptolemy VI.
Cleopatra II led a rebellion against Physcon in 131, and successfully drove him and Cleopatra III out of Egypt.
She offered the throne to Demetrius II of Syria, but he was assassinated by Physcon, and Cleopatra left for Syria in 127 BC.
www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Bios/CleopatraII.html   (353 words)

  
 Cleopatra II
She is identified as queen Cleopatra daughter of king P[tolemy], which ensures that she is not Cleopatra I.
However, given the absence of Cleopatra II in the opening of the decree in question, the mention is much more like to be a reference to Cleopatra Selene.
iii) The cult of the holy foal, which is normally assumed to relate to Cleopatra III, is only attested for the years 131 to 106.
www.geocities.com /christopherjbennett/ptolemies/cleopatra_ii.htm   (4781 words)

  
 Session 27
Shakespeare's handling of Cleopatra and Octavia, within the structure of the play, as well as in terms of the ways in which they contribute to the characterization of Antony and Octavius Caesar, is very interesting.
Cleopatra, on the other hand, as much as Antony is a "subject" in this play and yet how easy it is to talk about Antony, how difficult to get a fix on what Shakespeare is up to with Cleopatra.
At the start, Antony is Mars, Cleopatra is Venus; by the end they have been reduced, or elevated, depending on how you look at it, to man and woman, husband and wife -- which in Shakespeare's time is a sacrament, though their relationship of course is never sanctified by the rites of any church.
web.missouri.edu /~benderr/courses/135/sessions/27.html   (1454 words)

  
 Seleucids
Ptolemy VI Cleopatra Thea, daughter of Ptolemy VI and Cleopatra II (married to Alexander Balas in 150, Demetrius II in 146, and Antiochus VII in 138; mother of Antiochus VIII)
Cleopatra III was his niece and his wife beginning in 142.
Cleopatra Thea murdered her son Seleucus V and seized throne for herself.
prophetess.lstc.edu /~rklein/Documents/seleucids.htm   (496 words)

  
 Berenice III
Only if she was a daughter of Cleopatra Selene could there be no doubt about her legitimacy, since Cleopatra IV, unique amongst Ptolemaic queens, was married to Ptolemy IX before his accession, and her divorce was a condition imposed by Cleopatra III for accepting him (Justin 39.3).
On this reading, it was dedicated to Ptolemy X, Cleopatra III and Berenice III as wife of Ptolemy X during the period before Ptolemy IX reconquered Cyprus, i.e.
Since the queen is referred to second, she must be Berenice III rather than his mother, Cleopatra III, who would have been referred to first.
www.geocities.com /christopherjbennett/ptolemies/berenice_iii.htm   (2249 words)

  
 THE PTOLEMAIC PERIOD
The most famous member of the line was the last queen, Cleopatra VII, known for her role in the Roman political battles between Julius Caesar and Pompey, and later between Octavian and Mark Antony.
Whilst Ptolemy I and Cleopatra VII are perhaps the best-known rulers, most of the Ptolemaic kings and queens emerge as distinctive individuals.
Eventually, a propaganda campaign by Octavian and the actions of Cleopatra VII, the daughter of Ptolemy XII, and the sister-wife of Ptolemy XIII, provided an ideal pretext for the Romans to conquer Egypt.
www.egyptologyonline.com /ptolemies.htm   (1107 words)

  
 R-MC Academics: Classics
Cleopatra VII was not the first Hellenistic queen to come into power.
Cleopatra III was perhaps the most domineering of all the Hellenistic queens.
When he married Cleopatra IV, Cleopatra III was so angry that she made him get a divorce.
www.rmc.edu /directory/academics/classics/cleoclass/queens.asp   (354 words)

  
 Bernard Shaw: Caesar and Cleopatra - ACT III   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
His swordsmanship, which is of a rough and ready sort, is heavily taxed, as he has occasionally to strike at her to keep her off between a blow and a guard with Apollodorus.
Cleopatra: I am loath to offend you; but without Caesar's express order we dare not let you pass beyond the Roman lines.
Cleopatra: when that trumpet sounds, we must take every man his life in his hand, and throw it in the face of Death.
www.dgillan.screaming.net /stage/plays/th-caes3.html   (4407 words)

  
 SparkNotes: Antony and Cleopatra: Act III, scenes viii–xiii
He asks Cleopatra why she has led him into infamy, and she begs his forgiveness, saying that she never dreamed that he would follow her retreat.
The ambassador further delivers Cleopatra’s request that Egypt be passed on to her heirs.
Enobarbus tells Cleopatra that the defeat was not her fault since Antony could have chosen to follow reason rather than lust.
www.sparknotes.com /shakespeare/antony/section6.rhtml   (1214 words)

  
 Caesar and Cleopatra - Act III - George Bernard Shaw - Read Print
Cleopatra, half frightened, half delighted, takes refuge near the palace, where the porters are squatting among the bales.
His swordsmanship, which is of a rough and ready sort, is heavily taxed, as he has occasionally to strike at her to keep her off between a blow and a guard with Apollodorus.
Cleopatra: when that trumpet sounds, we must take every man his life in his hand, and throw it in the face of Death.
www.readprint.com /chapter-8527/George-Bernard-Shaw   (4759 words)

  
 Ptolemy
Under Ptolemy IV, an extensive series of oktadrachms was struck posthumously for Ptolemy III, portraying him with the divine attributes of Helios (the radiate diadem), Zeus (the aegis), and Poseidon (the trident, the middle prong modified with the addition of the Egyptian lotus tip).
The concentration of such symbols is intended to show Ptolemy III as the master of the three elements, heaven, earth and sea.
In 193 married Cleopatra I, daughter of Antiochus III of Syria.
members.verizon.net /vze3xycv/RulersCoins/ptolemyPic.htm   (1123 words)

  
 Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
CLEOPATRA Is she as tall as me? Messenger She is not, madam.
CLEOPATRA He's very knowing; I do perceive't: there's nothing in her yet: The fellow has good judgment.
CLEOPATRA I have one thing more to ask him yet, good Charmian: But 'tis no matter; thou shalt bring him to me Where I will write.
easyweb.easynet.co.uk /~martin-noble/shake/anto33.htm   (308 words)

  
 Ptolemy
Under Ptolemy IV, an extensive series of oktadrachms was struck posthumously for Ptolemy III, portraying him with the divine attributes of Helios (the radiate diadem), Zeus (the aegis), and Poseidon (the trident, the middle prong modified with the addition of the Egyptian lotus tip).
The concentration of such symbols is intended to show Ptolemy III as the master of the three elements, heaven, earth and sea.
In 193 married Cleopatra I, daughter of Antiochus III of Syria.
home1.gte.net /~vze3xycv/RulersCoins/ptolemyPic.htm   (1123 words)

  
 George Bernard Shaw : Caesar and Cleopatra : ACT III
Cleopatra, half frightened, half delighted, takes refuge near the palace, where the porters are squatting among the bales.
CLEOPATRA (jealously, to Caesar, who is obviously perplexed).
CLEOPATRA (scrambling to her knees and clinging to him).
www.classicreader.com /read.php/sid./bookid.955/sec.3   (4687 words)

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