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Ankhwennefer (Egyptian rebel ruler)
Ankhwennefer, called Chaonnophris in Greek, was an Egyptian rebel pharaoh of Upper Egypt during the Great Theban Revolt, defeated and executed by Ptolemy V in 186 BC.
Antigone of Epirus
Antigone of Epirus was a Macedonian Greek noblewoman, daughter of Berenice I, who married Pyrrhus I and was queen of Epirus until her death in 295 BC.
Antigone of Macedon
Antigone of Macedon was a 4th-century BC Macedonian noblewoman, niece of the regent Antipater, known as the mother of Berenice I and ancestor of Egypt's Ptolemaic dynasty.
Arsinoe I
Arsinoe I, also Arsinoë I, was a Ptolemaic queen of Egypt, daughter of Lysimachus of Thrace and first wife of Ptolemy II, exiled to Coptos in the 270s BC.
Arsinoe II
Arsinoe II, also known as Arsinoë II Philadelphus, was a Ptolemaic queen who married her brother Ptolemy II and was later worshipped as a goddess.
Arsinoe III
Arsinoe III (Arsinoë III) was a Ptolemaic queen of Egypt, wife of her brother Ptolemy IV and mother of Ptolemy V, murdered in 204 BC.
Berenice I of Egypt
Berenice I of Egypt, also Berenike I, was a Macedonian noblewoman who became queen of Egypt as the wife of Ptolemy I Soter and mother of Ptolemy II.
Berenice II
Berenice II, also known as Berenike II, was queen of Ptolemaic Egypt as the wife of Ptolemy III, regent during the Third Syrian War and murdered in 221 BC.
Berenice III
Berenice III, also known as Cleopatra Berenice, was a queen of Ptolemaic Egypt, daughter of Ptolemy IX and the only Ptolemaic queen to rule alone, murdered in 80 BC.
Berenice IV
Berenice IV, also spelled Berenike IV, was queen of Ptolemaic Egypt from 58 to 55 BC, eldest daughter of Ptolemy XII and sister of Cleopatra VII.
Cleopatra I
Cleopatra I Syra was a Seleucid princess who married Ptolemy V and ruled Ptolemaic Egypt for her son Ptolemy VI until her death in 176 BC.
Cleopatra II
Cleopatra II of Egypt was a Ptolemaic queen from the 170s BC to 115 BC who married her brothers Ptolemy VI and Ptolemy VIII and briefly ruled Alexandria alone.
Cleopatra III
Cleopatra III of Egypt was a Ptolemaic queen who ruled from 141 to 101 BC alongside Ptolemy VIII and her sons, and was murdered in 101 BC.
Cleopatra IV
Cleopatra IV of Egypt was a Ptolemaic princess and queen consort to Ptolemy IX until 115 BC, later killed in the Seleucid dynastic war in 112 BC.
Cleopatra VI Tryphaena
Cleopatra VI Tryphaena is a queen of Ptolemaic Egypt who supposedly co-ruled with Berenice IV in 58–57 BC, though most scholars identify her with Cleopatra V.
Horwennefer
Horwennefer, also called Hurgonaphor or Haronnophris, was a native Egyptian rebel pharaoh crowned at Thebes in 205 BC who ruled Upper Egypt against the Ptolemaic kingdom until his capture and execution in 186 BC.
Magas (son of Ptolemy III)
Magas of Egypt was a prince of Ptolemaic Egypt, the youngest son of Ptolemy III and Berenice II, killed in the purge that opened Ptolemy IV's reign.
Philotera
Philotera was a princess of Ptolemaic Egypt, daughter of Ptolemy I Soter and Berenice I and full sister of Ptolemy II, deified after her death.
Ptolemy Apion
Ptolemy Apion (Πτολεμαῖος Ἀπίων) was the last Greek king of Cyrene, an illegitimate son of Ptolemy VIII of Egypt who willed his kingdom to Rome in 96 BC.
Ptolemy Eupator
Ptolemy Eupator was a son of Ptolemy VI Philometor and Cleopatra II, made co-regent of Egypt in 152 BC and dead, probably of disease, within months.
Ptolemy III Euergetes
Ptolemy III Euergetes, meaning "the Benefactor", was a Greek king of the Ptolemaic dynasty who ruled Egypt from 246 to 222 BC, son of Ptolemy II.
Ptolemy IV Philopator
Ptolemy IV Philopator (Ptolemaios Philopator) was a Ptolemaic king of Egypt, reigning from 222 to 204 BC and defeating Antiochus III at Raphia in 217 BC.
Ptolemy IX Soter
Ptolemy IX Soter, also called Ptolemy Lathyrus, was a Macedonian king of Egypt of the Ptolemaic dynasty, ruling 116–107 BC and again 88–81/80 BC after exile in Cyprus.
Ptolemy of Cyprus
Ptolemy of Cyprus, also called Ptolemy, king of Cyprus, was the last Ptolemaic king of Cyprus, ruling from 80 BC until Roman annexation in 58 BC.
Ptolemy V Epiphanes
Ptolemy V Epiphanes, also known as Ptolemy Epiphanes, was a king of Ptolemaic Egypt who reigned from 204 to 180 BC and is best known from the Rosetta Stone decree of 196 BC.
Ptolemy VI Philometor
Ptolemy VI Philometor, also known as Ptolemy Philometor, was a Greek Macedonian king of Ptolemaic Egypt who reigned 180–164 and 163–145 BCE, dying in Syria in 145.
Ptolemy VII Neos Philopator
Ptolemy VII Neos Philopator is the conventional name for a shadowy Ptolemaic prince of second-century BC Egypt, probably Ptolemy Memphites, murdered by his father around 130 BC.
Ptolemy VIII Physcon
Ptolemy VIII Physcon, also known as Ptolemy VIII Euergetes II, was a king of Ptolemaic Egypt who reigned, with interruptions, from 170 BC until his death in 116 BC.
Ptolemy X Alexander I
Ptolemy X Alexander I (Ptolemy Alexander) was a king of Ptolemaic Egypt who ruled from 107 to 88 BC, displacing his brother Ptolemy IX, and died trying to retake the kingdom.
Ptolemy XI Alexander II
Ptolemy XI Alexander II, also known as Ptolemy Alexander II, was a king of Ptolemaic Egypt whose reign of about 18 days in 80 BC ended in lynching.