Dec 26, 2009
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.
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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