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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 XIV of Egypt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ptolemy XIV (lived 60 BC/59 BC - 44 BC, reigned 47 BC - 44 BC), a son of Ptolemy XII of Egypt was one of the last members of the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt.
Following the death of his older brother Ptolemy XIII of Egypt on January 13, 47 BC, he was proclaimed Pharaoh and co-ruler by their older sister and remaining Pharaoh Cleopatra VII of Egypt.
It has been assumed but remains uncertain that Cleopatra poisoned her co-ruler to replace him with Ptolemy XV Caesarion, her son by Caesar who was proclaimed co-ruler on September 2, 44 BC and whom his mother intended to support as successor of his father.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ptolemy_XIV_of_Egypt   (219 words)

  
 Greece: Alexander and Hellenic Times: Shaw's Outline of Ancient History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
Ptolemy I Soter (305-283) born in 367/6 BCE of a certain Lagos and Arsinoe, both Macedonian nobility.
Ptolemy Keraunos son of Ptolemy I Soter by Eurydice was proclaimed king of Macedonia by the army in 280 and was killed by the Gauls along with his army, in 279 BCE
Cleopatra VII Thea and Ptolemy XV Caesarion (044-031)
www.juyayay.com /outline/greece/politics03.html   (873 words)

  
 Cleopatra, Miss First Millennium of the Christian Era
Cleopatra VII was the last female Pharaoh of Egypt and her son, Pharaoh Ptolemy XV Caesarion, the last of a long line of thirty dynasties of god-kings that stretched back from 3100 BC to 30 BC.
Ptolemy XII, Cleopatra's father, was direct descendant of General Lagus one of Alexander the Great's boyhood friends and most trusted generals, later known as the diadochi or general descendants of the imperial power after Alexander's death.
The Egypt of the Ptolemy Pharaoh Cleopatra VII was an exporter to the Mediterranean world of beans, beer, cabbage, cheeses, cumin, dates, figs, fruits (apricots, peaches), garlic, honey, ivory, lentils, mustard, oils (cotton, linseed, safflower), olives, onions, papyrus, radish, vines, walnuts, wood and wool provided by the river valley and delta.
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 Articles - History of Greek and Roman Egypt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
In 221 BC Ptolemy III died and was succeeded by his son Ptolemy IV Philopater, a weak and corrupt king under whom the decline of the Ptolemaic kingdom began.
Ptolemy V Epiphanes, son of Philopator and Arsinoë, was a child when he came to the throne, and a series of regents ran the kingdom.
Ptolemy XI was succeeded by a son of Ptolemy IX, Ptolemy XII Neos Dionysos, nicknamed Auletes, the flute-player.
www.gaple.com /articles/History_of_Greek_and_Roman_Egypt?mySession=f044e91a1a1aaf060ea9e71672202aec   (3984 words)

  
 Cleopatra VII
Cleopatra VII's father was Ptolemy XII Neos Dionysos "Auletes", who began his rule of Egypt in 80 B.C. He was not well respected and thought weak, as is exhibited by his popular nickname "Auletes", which means "flute-player" in Greek.
Ptolemy was called to an audience the next day and was dismayed to find that Cleopatra was at his side.
Ptolemy XIV is thought to have survived the voyage back to Egypt, but he died soon after.
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 Egyptian Pharaohs : Graeco-Roman Period : Ptolemaic Dynasty : Ptolemy V Epiphanes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
Eventually, the forces in Alexandria repelled the invaders and even defeated the rebel king, Wennefer, but most of the foreign provinces of Egypt that were gained at the beginning of the dynasty.
Antiochus defeated Ptolemy in the Battle of Panion 200 BCE and peace was cemented by the marriage of the young Egyptian king to Cleopatra I, daughter of Antiochus.
Ptolemy V is uniquely associated with the famed Rosetta Stone, which allowed the world to finally understand the hieroglyphic language -- he was crowned in 196 BCE in Memphis with traditional egyptian rites and the decrees issues for the occasion were copied and sent out.
www.phouka.com /pharaoh/pharaoh/dynasties/dyn33/05ptp5.html   (310 words)

  
 Cleopatra VII of Egypt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
Her father was Ptolemy XII Auletes, and her mother was probably Auletes's sister, Cleopatra V Tryphaena.
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.
They say the Ptolemies' family tree indicates that there was a great deal of interbreeding in the family, and that because Cleopatra was the first monarch to learn Egyptian, that Cleopatra was prodominately white.
www.lighthousepoint.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Cleopatra_VII_of_Egypt   (1966 words)

  
 Bible Study - Antony and Cleopatra
Ptolemy was the Macedonian general who, as one of the Diadochi, or Successors, of Alexander, acquired Egypt.
Ptolemy moved the capital of Egypt from Memphis to Alexandria - the city founded by Alexander the Great himself.
From there, the Ptolemies ruled an empire that extended beyond Egypt to Israel, Cyrenaica, Cyprus and as far north as western Asia Minor (Turkey) and The Aegean Sea.
www.keyway.ca /htm2002/20020707.htm   (460 words)

  
 Cleopatra biography
Cleopatra now nominally married her younger brother, Ptolemy XV, and, after settling their joint government upon a secure basis, went to Rome, where she lived as Cæsar's mistress until his assassination in 44 b.c.
After Cæsar's death, having, it is said, poisoned her brother, Ptolemy XV, she returned to Egypt, where she associated with her on the throne her son by Cæsar, called Cæsarion.
Ptolemy, son of Juba and the younger Cleopatra, was slain by Caligula, and with him ended the line of the Ptolemies.
www.dromo.info /cleopatrabio.htm   (830 words)

  
 Egypt: Rulers, Kings and Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt: Cleopatra VII & Ptolemy XIII
In the springtime of 51 BC, Ptolemy Auletes died and left his kingdom in his will to his eighteen year old daughter, Cleopatra, and her younger brother Ptolemy XIII who was twelve at the time.
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.
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 Nabataea: The Ptolemy's of Alexandria
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 V (210-181 BC) was known as Ptolemy Epiphanes ("illustrious") and was king of Egypt from 205-181 BC.
Ptolemy VII (184-116 BC) was known as Ptolemy Euergetes ("benefactor") II and was the king of Egypt from 145-116 BC.
www.nabataea.net /ptolomy.html   (8349 words)

  
 Articles - Cleopatra VII of Egypt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
She was first briefly co-ruler with her father, Ptolemy XII Auletes and on his death became co-ruler with her brother Ptolemy XIII in the spring of 51 BC.
At the age of 18, she was left the throne on the death of her father, Ptolemy XII Auletes, in spring 51 BC, to rule jointly with her 12 year old brother, Ptolemy XIII.
Ptolemy I was the son of Arsinoe of Macedonia by either her husband Lagus, a Macedonian nobleman, or her lover Philip II of Macedon.
www.gaple.com /articles/Cleopatra_VII_of_Egypt   (2061 words)

  
 Cleopatra VII   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
Ptolemy I was a general of Alexander the Great, and founded the Ptolemaic dynasty.
Reverse: Eagle on thunderbolt (the badge of the Ptolemies).
Her son, King Ptolemy XV, was murdered, and the Ptolemaic dynasty ended.
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 Ptolemy XIV of Egypt
Ptolemy XIV (lived 60 B/59 BC - 44 BC, reigned 47 BC - 44 BC), a son of Ptolemy XII of Egypt was one of the last members of the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt.
Following the death of his older brother Ptolemy XIII of Egypt on January 13, 47 BCE, he was proclaimed Pharaoh and co-ruler by their older sister and remaining Pharaoh Cleopatra VII of Egypt.
On March 15, 44 BC Caesar was murdured in Rome by a group of conspirators whose most notable members were his presumed illegitimate son Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus.
www.ukpedia.com /p/ptolemy-xiv-of-egypt.html   (209 words)

  
 Cleopatra VII, Ptolemy XIII, Ptolemy XIV and Ptolemy XV Caesarion ... youregypt.com
Cleopatra VII, Ptolemy XIII, Ptolemy XIV and Ptolemy XV Caesarion...
Ptolemy XIII realized what was happening between them and he called out for help from the Alexandrians.
Cleopatra appointed Ptolemy XV Caesarion, her son, as her coregent when he was only 4 years old.
www.youregypt.com /ehistory/history/greek/cleopatravii/index.htm   (630 words)

  
 Cleopatra Part 1: Seducer of Power
Her family, the Ptolemies, had been sitting on the throne since 323 BC when their ancestor, Ptolemy I, a general under Alexander the Great, became pharoah after Alexander's death.
Ptolemy XII died in 51 BC leaving his throne to Cleopatra and her 12-year-old brother, Ptolemy XIII.
Ptolemy XV Caesar, or Caesarian ("Little Caesar"), was born on June 23, 47 BC.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/historys_wild_women/77274   (917 words)

  
 Ptolemies
The fourteen kings of this dynasty were all called Ptolemy and are numbered by modern historians I to XV (Ptolemy VII never reigned).
Another intriguing aspect was the willingness of the Ptolemies to present themselves to the Egyptians as native pharaohs (cf.
However, after the death of Ptolemy IV in 204, his son Ptolemy V was too young to rule, and his wife Arsinoe was murdered.
www.livius.org /ps-pz/ptolemies/ptolemies.htm   (469 words)

  
 Ptolemaic dynasty
Ptolemy, one of Alexander the Great's generals, was appointed satrap of Egypt after Alexander's death in 323 BC.
Ptolemy's family ruled Egypt until the Roman conquest of 30 BC.
Ptolemy II Philadelphos (284 BC-246 BC) married Arsinoe I, then Arsinoe II Philadelphos; ruled jointly with Ptolemy the Son (267 BC-259 BC)
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/ptolemaic_dynasty   (459 words)

  
 Cleopatra Discussion
Ptolemy XV was Cleoaptra's son from Caesar (aka Caesarion).
Aghrist the grandaughter of the king of athens and ptolemy XV king of egypt and aker was with child when her husband died.
Ptolemy, being very young and not as strong in character as her sister, was easily exploited by the ambitious Pothinus and led him to despise her sister.
ce.eng.usf.edu /pharos/alexandria/History/cl_forum.html   (8278 words)

  
 Ptolemy XV Caesarion
He noted in particular that Caesar never mentioned his abortive bestowal of Cyprus on Arsinoe IV and Ptolemy XIV in 48, and that all sources discussing Caesar's settlement after the Alexandrian War say only that he granted Egypt to Cleopatra VII and Ptolemy XIII; nothing is said about Cyprus.
Its assignment to Ptolemy XV was proved by a block from the chapel of Cleopatra VII and Ptolemy XV at Coptos associating it directly with Ptolemy XV by his Son of Re name.
Ptolemy is named as sole king; this is the only attestation of a king Ptolemy under this title.
www.tyndale.cam.ac.uk /Egypt/ptolemies/ptolemy_xv.htm   (3980 words)

  
 Ptolemy
Ptolemy II and wife, with father (Ptolemy I) and mother on reverse.
ADELFWN, conjoined busts of Ptolemy II and Arsinöe II right; Ptolemy is diademed and draped, Arsinöe is diademed and veiled; Gallic shield behind their heads / QEWN, conjoined busts of Ptolemy I and Berenike I; Ptolemy is diademed and draped, Berenike is diademed and veiled.
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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 Royalty.nu - History of Egypt - Cleopatra VII, the Last Pharaoh
Her father was Egypt's pharaoh, Ptolemy XII, nicknamed Auletes or "Flute-Player." Cleopatra's mother was probably Auletes's sister, Cleopatra V Tryphaena.
Ptolemy XII was a weak and cruel ruler, and in 58 BC the people of Alexandria rebelled and overthrew him.
But Ptolemy's advisors thought it would be safer to side with Caesar, and when Pompey arrived he was stabbed to death while the pharaoh watched.
www.royalty.nu /Africa/Egypt/Cleopatra.html   (3577 words)

  
 Ptolemy --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Ptolemy was his mother's co-ruler, killed by Octavian, later the emperor Augustus, after Cleopatra's death in 30.
Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy) was an eminent astronomer, mathematician, and geographer who lived in the 2nd century AD.
Ptolemy published his astronomical data in an encyclopedic volume known as Almagest.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9061778   (723 words)

  
 Cleopatra
Cleopatra, actually known as Cleopatra VII, was born in Egypt in 69 B.C. In 58 B.C., her father Ptolemy XII was expelled from power, so Cleopatra helped him regain his power.
However, her father died in 51 B.C., and Cleopatra and her brother Ptolemy XIII took the throne.
With his help, Ptolemy XIII was killed in 47 B.C. and Caesar pronounced Cleopatra as queen of Egypt.
www.angelfire.com /anime2/100import/cleopatra.html   (438 words)

  
 Cleopatra
Cleopatra VII was born in sixty-nine BC in Alexandria, Egypt to a family of Macedonian decent and important rule.
Cleopatra VII was the daughter of Ptolemy XII Neos Dionysos, nicknamed "Auletes", meaning "flute-player" in Greek.
In fifty BC, Ptolemy XIII signed a decree, banning shipments of grain to anywhere but Alexandria, to deprive Cleopatra VII and supporters, who were not in Alexandria.
www.ccds.charlotte.nc.us /History/Egypt/03/muzzillo/muzzillo.htm   (1166 words)

  
 Queen Cleopatra
Cleopatra was born in 69 B.C. in Alexandria.
She was the third daughter in line to her father Ptolemy XII; she later had another sister and two younger brothers.
Ptolemy XIII was gone to Pelusium and Caesar placed himself in the royal palace and started giving out orders to make Ptolemy XIII return again.
www.kingtutshop.com /freeinfo/cleopatra.htm   (1867 words)

  
 IBSS - History - Greek   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
It tells the Decree of Memphis which is the decree of Ptolemy V in his 9th year in 196 BC.
Julius Caesar favored Cleopatra ruling over Ptolemy XIII who then besieged the Romans on Pharos island, but was drowned in the battle.
Cleopatra married her younger brother Ptolemy XIV, but had a son by Julius Caesar named Ptolemy XV Caesarion.
www.bibleandscience.com /history/greeks.htm   (323 words)

  
 Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos: Book the Third: Chapter XV. Exemplification
CHAPTER XV IN order to exemplify the foregoing instructions, let the first point of Aries be supposed as the preceding place, and the first point in Gemini the succeeding; and let the latitude of the country, to which the operation relates, be such as will cause the longest day to consist of fourteen hours
It is, however, necessary in these cases, to consider also what familiarity, or analogy, the peculiar properties of the places, thus meeting, may bear to the circumstances of the nativity.
The said diagrams have been adapted to the "exemplification" here given by Ptolemy; one of them being laid down for the latitude of Alexandria, and the other for the latitude of southern Britain (51° 30' N.), with similar positions of the preceding and succeeding places adverted to in the text.
www.sacred-texts.com /astro/ptb/ptb59.htm   (1804 words)

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