Person:Berenice II (1)

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Berenice II
b.bet 0267 BC and 0266 BC
d.0221 BC
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  1. Berenice II
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  1. Ptolemy IV Philopator
  2. Arsinoe III of Egypt
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Name Berenice II
Gender Female
Death[1] 0221 BC
Reference Number? Q40010?
Birth[1] bet 0267 BC and 0266 BC


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Berenice II (267 or 266 BC – 221 BC) was the daughter of Magas of Cyrene and Queen Apama II, and the wife of Ptolemy III Euergetes, the third ruler of the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt.

In about 249 BC, she was married to Demetrius the Fair, a Macedonian prince, soon after her father died. However after coming to Cyrene he became the lover of her mother Apama. In a dramatic event, she had him killed in Apama's bedroom, but Apama lived on afterwards. She had no children with Demetrius.

Afterwards she married Ptolemy III. Their children were: Ptolemy IV Philopator, Magas, Lysimachus, Alexander, Arsinoe III and Berenice.

Berenice is said to have participated in the Nemean Games (between 245 and 241 BC) and to have competed in Olympic games at some unknown date.

Soon after her husband's death (221 BC) she was murdered at the instigation of her son Ptolemy IV, with whom she was probably associated in the government.[1]

Nevertheless, a decree “issued delineating the cult for the newly deified queen Berenike II…specified that men and women singers were to sing all day in front of the statue of Berenike.”

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Berenice II, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
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