Berenice II
At a glance:
- Series: Great Lives from History: The Ancient World, Prehistory-476
- Categories: Government and Politics, Women’s Issues, Royalty, Rulers, Nobility
- Subcategories: Kings, Queens, Kingdoms, Monarchy, Pharaohs
- Curriculum: African History, Middle Eastern History, Ancient History
Article abstract: Ptolemaic (Macedonian) queen of Egypt{$I[g]Egypt;Berenice II} Berenice staged a palace coup in her native Cyrene that allowed for her marriage to Ptolemy III Euergetes, thus bringing Cyrene under Ptolemaic control.
Early Life
Information concerning the early life of Berenice’s (beh-ruh-NI-see) is sketchy and somewhat contradictory. Aside from some fragments of a poem by Callimachus, a native of Cyrene who served in Alexandria as a kind of court poet for Ptolemy II Philadelphus and Ptolemy III Euergetes, all of the literary evidence...
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