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  Ptolemaic Dynasty - Ptolemy I - XV
Ptolemy IV Philopator was the fourth ruler of the Ptolemaic Dynasty.
Ptolemy VI Philometor was the sixth ruler of the Ptolemaic Dynasty.
Ptolemy VII Neos Philopator was the seventh ruler of the Ptolemaic Dynasty.
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 Ptolemy X - LoveToKnow 1911
Ptolemy Apion meanwhile, dying in 96, had bequeathed the Cyrenaica to Rome.
Ptolemy Auletes was thus obliged to spend his reign in buying the support of the men in power in Rome.
From then till her death in 30, her son, born in 47, and asserted by Cleopatra to be the child of Julius Caesar, was associated officially with her as Ptolemy XiV.
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 PTOLEMY - LoveToKnow Article on PTOLEMY   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Ptolemy now takes up this question for the planets; he says that this perfection is of the essence of celestial things, which admit of neither disorder nor inequality, that this planetary theory is one of extreme difficulty, and that no one had yet completely succeeded in it.
Ptolemy concludes his great work by saying that he has included in it everything of practical utility which in his judgment should find a place in a treatise on astronomy at the time it was written, with relation as well to discoveries as to methods.
Ptolemy especially devoted himself to the mathematical branch of his subject, and the arrangement of his work, in which his rcsults are presented in a tabular form, instead of being at once embodied in a map, was undoubtedly designed to enable the student to construct his maps for himself.
9.1911encyclopedia.org /P/PT/PTOLEMY.htm   (12441 words)

  
 g. Ptolemaic Egypt to the Roman Conquest. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
Ptolemy VI Philometor (“loving his mother”) followed Ptolemy V under the regency of his mother Cleopatra I. In consequence of Ptolemy's cowardice during the Sixth Syrian War with Antiochus IV (170–168), the people of Alexandria forced him to associate his brother, Ptolemy VII, in his rule.
Ptolemy VIII Soter II or Lathyrus (“chick-pea”), son of Ptolemy VII, was eventually expelled by his brother Ptolemy IX Alexander I (108–88).
Ptolemy X Alexander II, son of Ptolemy IX, succeeded but was at once slain by the people of Alexandria (80), who set up an illegitimate son of Ptolemy VIII, Ptolemy XI Auletes (“flute-player”) or Neos (“new”) Dionysos.
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 Ptolemy XI of Egypt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ptolemy XI Alexander II was a member of the Ptolemaic dynasty who ruled Egypt for a few days in 80 BC.
Ptolemy XI was born to Ptolemy X Alexander and either Cleopatra Selene or Berenice III.
Ptolemy IX Lathryos died in 81 or 80, leaving no legitimate heir, and so Cleopatra Berenice (another name of Berenice III) ruled alone for a time.
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 JewishEncyclopedia.com - PTOLEMY I.
It was Ptolemy I. who brought Palestine and the Jews under the dominion of the Ptolemies.
On this occasion Ptolemy I. is said to have taken many captives from Jerusalem and from the rest of Judea as well as from Samaria, and to have settled them in Egypt.
Elsewhere also the kindness of the Ptolemies toward the Jews is highly praised by Josephus ("Contra Ap." ii., §§ 4, 5); and this especially in comparison with the cruel persecutions which the Jews suffered later at the hands of the Seleucidæ in Syria.
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 Ptolemy IX Lathyros - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ptolemy IX Soter II or Lathyros ("chickpea") was king of Egypt three times, from 116 BC to 110 BC, 109 BC to 107 BC and 88 BC to 81 BC, with intervening periods ruled by his brother, Ptolemy X Alexander.
She was forced to marry her stepson Alexander, who reigned under the name Ptolemy XI and had her killed 19 days later.
Ptolemy IX's name recalls that of his great ancestor, Ptolemy I Soter; note that in older references, he may be numbered VIII.
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 Encyclopedia: Ptolemy II of Egypt   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Ptolemy II Philadelphus (309-246 BC), was of a delicate constitution, no Macedonian warrior-chief of the old style.
Ptolemy's first wife, Arsinoë I, daughter of Lysimachus, was the mother of his legitimate children.
Ptolemy had many brilliant mistresses, and his court, magnificent and dissolute, intellectual and artificial, has been justly compared with the Versailles of Louis XIV.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Ptolemy-II-of-Egypt   (486 words)

  
 Omnipelagos.com ~ article "Ptolemy XI Alexander II"
Ptolemy XI Alexander II Ptolemy XI Alexander II was a member of the Ptolemaic dynasty who ruled Egypt for a few days in 80 BC.
Ptolemy XI was born to Ptolemy X Alexander and either Cleopatra Selene or Berenice III.
Ptolemy IX Lathryos died in 81 or 80, leaving no legitimate heir, and so Cleopatra Berenice (another name of Berenice III) ruled alone for a time.
www.omnipelagos.com /entry?n=ptolemy_%58%49_of_%45gypt   (181 words)

  
 Ptolemy XII of Egypt   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Ptolemy XII Neos Dionysos Theos Philopator Theos Philadelphos (117 BCE - 51 BCE) was son of Ptolemy IX Soter II.
He followed Ptolemy XI Alexandros II who had been killed by an angry crowd, after having killed his popular coregent Berenice III, who was incidentally also a daughter of Ptolemy IX Soter II.
In his will he declared that she and her brother Ptolemy XIII should rule the kingdom together.
www.1-free-software.com /en/wikipedia/p/pt/ptolemy_xii_of_egypt.html   (287 words)

  
 Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Ptolemy XII of Egypt
Ptolemy XII Neos Dionysos Theos Philopator Theos Philadelphos (117 BCE - 51 BCE) was son of Ptolemy IX[?] Soter II.
He followed Ptolemy XI[?] Alexandros II who had been killed by an angry crowd, after having killed his popular coregent Cleopatra V of Egypt[?] Berenice III, who was incidentally also a daughter of Ptolemy IX Soter II.
In his will he declared that she and her brother Ptolemy XIII should rule the kingdom together.
www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/pt/Ptolemy_XII_of_Egypt   (311 words)

  
 Ptolemy XII - Encyclopedia.com
Ptolemy XII 61?-47 BC, king of ancient Egypt (51-47 BC), of the Macedonian dynasty; son of Ptolemy XI.
He fell under the influence of Cleopatra, forced Ptolemy XII to share the throne with her again, and put down a rebellion raised by Pothinus.
Ptolemy and Strabo and their conversation with Appeles and Protogenes: cosmography and painting in Raphael's 'School of Athens.'
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 Egyptian Pharaohs : Graeco-Roman Period : Ptolemaic Dynasty : Ptolemy XII Neos Dionysos
Ptolemy XII was often referred to as "The Bastard" or "Flute Player" -- which, I gather, was not a complimentary label and may have involved suggestions of homosexuality -- and he referred to himself with the lofty title "Theos Philopater Philadelphos Neos Dionysus.
Ptolemy XII was the illegitimate son of Ptolemy IX (Lathyros), who ruled as co-regent with his mother.
Ptolemy XII was not a good pharaoh, and his violent behavior and reprehensible life caused the people of Alexandria to force him out of office and out of Egypt.
www.phouka.com /pharaoh/pharaoh/dynasties/dyn33/12pto12.html   (302 words)

  
 Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 367 (v. 1)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The daughter of Lysimachus and Nicaea, was married to Ptolemy II.
279, and Ptolemy became capti­vated by her, Arsinoe, the daughter of Lysima­chus, in conjunction with Amyntas and Chrysip-pus, a physician of Rhodes, plotted against her; but her plots were discovered, and she was banish­ed to Coptos, or some city of the Thebais.
As Arsi­noe disapproved of this connexion, she invited De­metrius the Fair, the son of Demetrius Poliorcetes, to Gyrene, in order to become the king of the place and the husband of Berenice.
ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/0376.html   (849 words)

  
 Egypt - Ptolemy XII   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Ptolemy XII's father had competed for the throne with his brother Ptolemy X. Ptolemy IX ruled Egypt from 116 BC to 106 BC than fled to Cyprus when his brother Ptolemy X took the thone from 106 BC - to 88 BC.
Ptolemy XII was a weak ruler under the influence of Rome.
While Ptolemy XII was in Rome, his daughter Bernice conspired with her husband "Archelaus" (a friend of Mithridates VI) to take over rule of Egypt.
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 Ptolemy XI
Ptolemy III "son" of Arsinoe II and Cleopatra III "daughter" of Ptolemy VIII.
It is notable that Appian only mentions the capture of Ptolemy XI, even though there are good grounds to think that two sons of Ptolemy IX, most probably Ptolemy XII and Ptolemy of Cyprus, were also captured in the raid.
Ptolemy X was expelled from Alexandria in about May of 88, so it may well be that Mithridates was not yet aware of this at the time made the raid, and that his main purpose was capture the heir of the king of Egypt.
www.tyndale.cam.ac.uk /Egypt/ptolemies/ptolemy_xi.htm   (1721 words)

  
 Ptolemy XII
Ptolemy XI at the hands of the Alexandrian mob, and on this basis it is usually inferred that "the boy" must be Ptolemy XII.
Ptolemy XI In the commentary on both fragments, the Bobbio scholiast notes that they are defences against charges of involvement in the death of his predecessor.
Ptolemy XI In other words, I suggest that the titles are an expression of a desire for reconciliation and reuniting of the feuding branches of the Ptolemaic dynasty.
www.tyndale.cam.ac.uk /Egypt/ptolemies/ptolemy_xii.htm   (8660 words)

  
 Ptolemy XI
Ptolemy XI Ptolemy XI Ptolemy XI Alexander II was a member of the Ptolemaic dynasty who ruled Egypt for a few days in 80 BC.
Ptolemy IX Lathryos died in 81 or 80, leaving no legitimate heir, and so Cleopatra Berenice ruled alone for a time.
However, nineteen days after the marriage, Ptolemy murdered his bride for unknown reasons, anunwise move since Berenice was very popular; Ptolemy was immediately lynched by the citizens of Alexandria.
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Ptolemy I and Ptolemy II portrait coinage: AR tetradrachms and drachms.
Ptolemy XI Alexander, coinage struck in Cyprus, AR hemidrachm.
Ptolemy VI Philometor, 181/0-145 B.C. Commemoration of Kleopatra I, 181/0-174 B.C. AV octodrachms and Kleopatra bronzes.
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 MJKnecht's-Cleopatra   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Her father was Ptolemy XII Nothos ("the Bastard"), the illegitimate son of Ptolemy XI by one of his concubines.
Ptolemy XII Auletes ("the flute") had Soter's large nose and was Cleo's father.
She married Ptolemy XIII (who was later drowned while running from Caesar's troops)and Ptolemy XIV, then eleven (11) years old (who was later poisoned) Both of Cleopatra's younger half brothers were born to her father's second wife.
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 Nabataea: The Ptolemy's of Alexandria
Ptolemy II became a master at the fiscal exploitation of the Egyptian countryside; the capital, Alexandria, served as the main trading and export centre.
He was the son of Ptolemy II and he reunited Cyrenaica with Egypt, as well as invaded the Seleucid Kingdom of Syria to avenge the murder of his sister and her infant son, the heir to the Seleucid throne.
Ptolemy VII (184-116 BC) was known as Ptolemy Euergetes ("benefactor") II and was the king of Egypt from 145-116 BC.
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 Ptolemy 12 Neos Dionysios
Ptolemy was one of the last kings of the Ptolemaic dynasty, and one of the weak rulers of this dynasty who did not manage to hold control over Egypt without foreign help.
From 58 until 55 he was exiled by unsatisfied Egyptians, and did not return to his position as king of Egypt until he got help from his aids in Rome.
Ptolemy was the father of Cleopatra 7 Philopator.
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 Ptolemaic dynasty
Ptolemy I Soter, one of Alexander the Great's generals, established himself in Egypt as pharaoh after the death of Alexander, and his family ruled Egypt from 323 BC until the Roman conquest in 31 BC.
Ptolemy VIII of Egypt[?] and Cleopatra III of Egypt[?] Euergetes (Kokke)
Ptolemy XII of Egypt Neos Dionysos (Auletes) and Cleopatra VI of Egypt[?] Tryphaena
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 Ptolemy's Almagest: Star Catalogue
231 10 +07 30 3 2.43 17 04 38.5 -15 36 04 +0.038 +0.095 6378 35 eta Oph 246 13 Quae in tibia dextra....................*233 40 +02 15 4-3 4.39 17 15 00.6 -21 00 20 +0.231 -0.209 6445 40 xi Oph 247 14 Praecedens de quatuor quae sunt in pede dextro.................................
320 30 +19 00 4 4.19 22 41 41.8 +11 39 36 +0.233 -0.493 8665 46 xi Peg 327 13 Australior duarum quae in juba sunt.....
0 40 -07 45 4 4.62 01 48 22.6 +02 41 38 +0.019 +0.028 549 111 xi Psc 692 19.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Almagest
Ptolemy set up a public inscription at Canopus in Egypt in 147/148 A.D. The late N. Hamilton found that the version of Ptolemy's models set out in the Canopic Inscription was earlier than the version in Almagest.
Ptolemy's authority was preferred by most Islamic and late medieval European astronomers.
Ptolemy inherited from his Greek predecessors a geometrical toolbox and a partial set of models for predicting where the planets would appear in the sky.
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 Cleopatra's History: Ptolemy, Greek general, ancestor of Cleopatra   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Ptolemy, a Greek general was ancestor to Cleopatra.
Ptolemy XI king of Egypt, was the father of Cleopatra VII.
In the springtime of 51 BC, Pharaoh Ptolemy Auletes died and left his kingdom in his will to his eighteen year old daughter, Cleopatra, and her 12 year old brother Ptolemy XIII.
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 Ptolemy XI - Encyclopedia.com
He succeeded Ptolemy X to the throne, but his violent misrule and reprehensible life caused the Alexandrians finally to rebel and unseat him in 58 BC He sought Roman aid and with the help of Pompey paid Aulus Gabinius, proconsul of Syria, a huge sum to put him back on the throne.
cousin and stepson, Ptolemy X's son, Ptolemy XI, was brought to Alexandria and married...
marriage of Kleopatra Berenike and Ptolemy XI, according to the conventional reconstruction...
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 Campbell Clan Pages
She was married to her younger brother Ptolemy XIII when he was twelve, however she soon dropped his name from any official documents regardless of the Ptolemaic insistence that the male presence be first among co-rulers.
Ptolemy XV (Caesarion) was made the co-ruler with his mother and was called the King of Kings.
XI was born in Abt 69 BC in Alexandria, Egypt, and died in August 12, 30 suicide by an asp.
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 Ptolemy
Ptolemy II and wife, with father (Ptolemy I) and mother on reverse.
Ptolemy II, with Arsinöe II, Ptolemy I, and Berenike I. AV Oktadrachm (27.65 gm).
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).
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 Ptolemy XII Auletes
Like his younger cousin, Ptolemy XI, Auletes ["the Piper"] was sent to the isle of Cos where he was taken hostage by Mithradates VI of Pontus (88
In the wake of the deaths of Berenice III and Ptolemy XI (80
Berenice III, Ptolemy X Alexander II and Ptolemy XI (Auletes) - chapter 12 of E. Bevan's 1927 classic The House of Ptolemy [on Bill Thayer's Lacus Curtius].
virtualreligion.net /iho/ptolemy_12.html   (382 words)

  
 Berenice III
The supposed large difference in age between her and Ptolemy XI then becomes one of his motives for murdering her.
Ptolemy IX had given the title to all his children in order to promote harmony amongst them, but there is no apparent evidence that Ptolemy of Cyprus ever bore the title.
Ptolemy XI was on Cos throughout the period of his father's marriage to Berenice III, he was surely still regarded as a royal son, and probably as the king's heir.
www.geocities.com /christopherjbennett/ptolemies/berenice_iii.htm   (2249 words)

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