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    Ptolemy Ceraunus (Greek: Πτολεμαῖος Κεραυνός Ptolemaios Keraunos; c. 319 BC – January/February 279 BC) was a member of the Ptolemaic dynasty and briefly...
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    Macedonia. They had five children before she was repudiated: three sons–Ptolemy Ceraunus, king of Macedon from 281 BC to 279 BC; his brother and successor Meleager...
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    But upon arriving in Thrace in 281 BC, Seleucus was assassinated by Ptolemy Ceraunus, who had taken refuge at the Seleucid court with his sister Lysandra...
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    rent Egypt, where Ptolemy decided to make his younger son Ptolemy Philadelphus his heir rather than the elder, Ptolemy Ceraunus. Ceraunus fled to Seleucus...
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    Ptolemy IX Soter II (Greek: Πτολεμαῖος Σωτήρ, Ptolemaĩos Sōtḗr "Ptolemy the Saviour"), commonly nicknamed Lathyros (Λάθυρος, Láthuros "chickpea"), was...
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    concurrently. Ptolemy I, founder of the dynasty. Ptolemy II Ptolemy III Ptolemy IV Ptolemy V Ptolemy VI Cleopatra II (right) Ptolemy VIII Ptolemy IX Ptolemy X Ptolemy...
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    Caesarion (redirect from Ptolemy XV)
    Ptolemy XV Caesar (/ˈtɒləmi/; Greek: Πτολεμαῖος Καῖσαρ, Ptolemaios Kaisar; 23 June 47 BC – 29 August 30 BC), nicknamed Caesarion (Greek: Καισαρίων, Kaisaríōn...
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    p. 449. Hammond & Walbank 1988, pp. 242–243. "Ptolemaic Dynasty -- Ptolemy Ceraunus". instonebrewer.com. Retrieved 2023-02-24. Errington 1990, pp. 159–160...
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    Ptolemy VIII Euergetes II Tryphon (Greek: Πτολεμαῖος Εὐεργέτης Τρύφων, Ptolemaĩos Euergétēs Tryphōn, "Ptolemy the Benefactor, the Opulent"; c. 184 BC...
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    to Ptolemy VIII (likely inspired by a similar narrative about the marriage of Ptolemy Ceraunus to Arsinoe II). Ptolemy Memphites, only son of Ptolemy VIII...
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    throws, but did not know how to use them. When the Gauls defeated Ptolemy Ceraunus and the Macedonian throne became vacant, Pyrrhus was occupied in his...
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  • Eurydice of Egypt (category Wives of Ptolemy I Soter)
    unknown fifth: Ptolemy Ceraunus, Meleager, Ptolemais, and Lysandra. Ptolemy Ceraunus was expected to be his father's heir, but in 285/4 BCE Ptolemy I chose his...
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    and Asia Minor) in the battle of Corupedium (near Sardis) in 281 BC. Ptolemy Ceraunus assassinated Seleucus later in the same year. Seleucus' eldest son...
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    assassinated by Ptolemy Ceraunus ("the thunderbolt"), who had taken refuge at the Seleucid court and then had himself acclaimed as king of Macedon. Ptolemy was killed...
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    org Ptolemaic Genealogy: Ptolemy Ceraunus Ptolemaic Genealogy: Unknown wife of Ptolemy Ceraunus Ptolemaic Genealogy: Ptolemy ‘the Son’ Wikimedia Commons...
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    Ptolemy II Philadelphus (Ancient Greek: Πτολεμαῖος Φιλάδελφος, Ptolemaîos Philádelphos, "Ptolemy, sibling-lover"; 309 – 28 January 246 BC) was the pharaoh...
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    Ptolemy III Euergetes (Greek: Πτολεμαῖος Εὐεργέτης, romanized: Ptolemaîos Euergétēs, "Ptolemy the Benefactor"; c. 280 – November/December 222 BC) was...
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    BC when Ptolemy returned to Egypt with Roman military assistance. When he died in 51 BC, Cleopatra began reigning alongside her brother Ptolemy XIII, but...
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    Hellenistic period. It was founded in 305 BC by the Macedonian general Ptolemy I Soter, a companion of Alexander the Great, and ruled by the Ptolemaic...
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    brother Idrieus Arsinoe II and her full brother Ptolemy II Philadelphus and half-brother Ptolemy Ceraunus Erato of Armenia and her half-brother Tigranes...
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    primarily Thrace and even Macedonia itself, but was assassinated by Ptolemy Ceraunus on landing in Europe. His son and successor, Antiochus I Soter, was...
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    in 278–277 BC; others invaded Macedonia, killed the Ptolemaic ruler Ptolemy Ceraunus but were eventually ousted by Antigonus Gonatas, the grandson of the...
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    son of Ptolemy X Alexander I and Cleopatra Selene. Ptolemy XI was born to Ptolemy X Alexander I and supposedly Cleopatra Selene. His uncle Ptolemy IX Lathryos...
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    Ptolemy VI Philometor (Greek: Πτολεμαῖος Φιλομήτωρ, Ptolemaĩos Philomḗtōr; 186–145 BC) was a Greek king of Ptolemaic Egypt who reigned from 180 to 164 BC...
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  • Pausanias 1.10.4 Ptolemaic Genealogy: Ptolemy Ceraunus "Ptolemaic Genealogy: Unknown wife of Ptolemy Ceraunus". Archived from the original on 2019-10-29...
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  • by Demetrius Poliorcetes 281 BC Seleucus I Nicator, assassinated by Ptolemy Ceraunus 249 BC Demetrius of Cyrene, assassinated by his wife Berenice II 246...
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    Arsinoe II (category Children of Ptolemy I Soter)
    Ptolemy Ceraunus from 280 to 279 BC and then to her full-blooded, younger brother Ptolemy II of Egypt from the late 270s BC until her death. Ptolemy II's...
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    Ptolemy IV Philopator (Greek: Πτολεμαῖος Φιλοπάτωρ, romanized: Ptolemaĩos Philopátōr; "Ptolemy, lover of his Father"; May/June 244 – July/August 204 BC)...
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    king offered 20,000 warriors to the Macedonian king Ptolemy Ceraunus to stop the invading Celts. Ptolemy found this offer insulting and rudely refused the...
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  • Ptolemaic Genealogy: Ptolemy "the Son" Ptolemaic Genealogy: Ptolemy Ceraunus Ptolemaic Genealogy: Unknown wife of Ptolemy Ceraunus H. Bengtson, Griechische...
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