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Between 142 and 139 BC, Ptolemy VIII married Cleopatra III, daughter of Ptolemy VI and Cleopatra II, and made her co-ruler, without divorcing Cleopatra II. According to Livy , Ptolemy VIII had initiated a relationship with his niece shortly after his accession which he now made official. [64]
- Ptolemy VI and Cleopatra II
- Cleopatra I of Egypt
- Ptolemy V of Egypt
- Ptolemy IX and Cleopatra II and Cleopatra III
Cleopatra II led a rebellion against Ptolemy VIII in 132/1 BC, and drove him and Cleopatra III out of Alexandria at the end of 131 BC. At this time Ptolemy VIII is said to have had Ptolemy Memphites, his son by his older sister, Cleopatra II, dismembered and his head, hands and feet sent to Cleopatra II in Alexandria as a birthday present.
Aug 7, 2023 · By 14 August 145 BC, Cleopatra had married Potbelly; that date is the first surviving attestation of the joint names of Ptolemy VIII and Cleopatra II in the historical record. There is no mention of young Ptolemy VII.
Of the remaining children, Cleopatra III was promised to Ptolemy VIII (154), Cleopatra Thea became enmeshed in Seleucid politics, and Ptolemy Neos Philopator was established as the heir to his parents' joint throne. As a result of Ptolemy VI's demise, Cleopatra II served briefly as regent for Ptolemy Neos Philopator, the younger of her sons.
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Ptolemy VIII they were no longer cited at all. In 130, during the civil war between Ptolemy VIII and Cleopatra II, the king added a new priesthood to his version of the eponymous Alexandrian dynastic cult—the Hieros Polos of Isis the Great Goddess, Mother of the Gods. This is usually interpreted as an individual cult to Cleopatra III.
128: Cleopatra II, supported by Seleucid troops (Demetrius II Nicator), attempts to recover her position, but the Seleucid expedition meets with failure near Pelusium. Ptolemy VIII supports Alexander II Zabinas, a rebel in the Seleucid Empire; 127/126: Ptolemy VIII punishes the Alexandrines
From 170 BC Ptolemy VIII joined in coregency with his brother Ptolemy VI and their sister, the remarkable Cleopatra II (not to be confused with the more famous Cleopatra VII). In 168 BC Lower Egypt was overrun by the forces of the Seleucid king Antiochus IV, from Syria, and the Ptolemaic dynasty might have been brought to its end, had not Rome ...
