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Person Info

• Name: Berenike
• Sex: F
• Birth: Abt 340 BC ^b
• Death: Before 268 BC ^d


Parents:

• Father:
  
• Magas
Mother:

• Antigone

Family:
Marriage:

• Philip on 1 .^m1
  
• Philip Death: Before 317 BC

Children:

1. Theoxena
2. Antigone Birth: Before 317 BC Death: 295 BC
3. Magos King Of Cyrene Birth: 325 BC Death: Abt 250 BC

Marriage:

• Ptolemy I Soter King Of Egypt on Abt 317 BC .^m2
  
• Ptolemy I Soter King Of Egypt Birth: Abt 369 BC in Eordaea, Macedonia Death: 10 Jan 282 BC

Children:

1. Ptolemy II Philadelphus King Of Egypt Birth: Abt 309 BC Death: 28 Jan 246 BC
2. Philotera Birth: Abt 315 BC Death: Abt 282 BC
3. Arsinoe Birth: Abt 316 BC Death: 25 Jul 270

Bibliography

Sources for birth and parent Information

date:

c340 BC [Ref: Bennett Ptolemies Berenice-i, Dodson Egypt p275],

parents:

[Ref: Bennett Ptolemies Aff-Antipatrids, Dodson Egypt p266]

?Magas & Antigone [Ref: Bennett Ptolemies Genealogy-full],

mother:

[Ref: Wagner PedigreeProgress #10]

Sources with Inaccurate birth and parent Information

father:

Lagus (#90592) [Ref: Wagner PedigreeProgress #10]

Sources for death Information

date:

before 268 BC [Ref: Dodson Egypt p275]

possibly in late 280s or early 270s, certainly before 68 BC [Ref: Bennett Ptolemies Berenice-i]

Sources with Information about marriage to Philip

date:

first marriage of Berenice [Ref: Bennett Ptolemies Berenice-i, Bennett Ptolemies Genealogy-full],

child:

[Ref: Bennett Ptolemies Genealogy-full, Dodson Egypt p266, Settipani LGA p107]

Sources with Information about marriage to Ptolemy I Soter King Of Egypt

date:

abt 317 BC [Ref: Dodson Egypt p275]

abt 317 BC, as fourth marriage of Ptolemy and second of Berenice [Ref: Bennett Ptolemies Berenice-i]

fourth marriage of Ptolemy and second of Berenice [Ref: Bennett Ptolemies Genealogy-summary]

fourth marriage of Ptolemy and second of Bernice [Ref: Bennett Ptolemies Genealogy-full]

third marriage of Ptolemy I [Ref: Wagner PedigreeProgress #10],

names:

[Ref: Settipani LGA p107],

child:

[Ref: Bennett Ptolemies Genealogy-full, Bennett Ptolemies Genealogy-summary, Dodson Egypt p266, Wagner PedigreeProgress #10]

Sources with Inaccurate marriage information

child:

Antigone (#51791) (but later in same paragraph she is a step-child of Ptolemaios I) [Ref: Settipani LGA p105]

Bernice (#24241) wife of Antiochus II [Ref: Wagner PedigreeProgress #11]

Research Notes:
came to Egypt in Eurydice's entourage, after death of Philip [Ref: Bennett Ptolemies Berenice-i]

victor in the chariot races in the Olympic games, unknown Olympiad [Ref: Bennett Ptolemies Berenice-i]

incorporated in the dynastic cult with Ptolemy I by Ptolemy IV in 215/214 as the Savior Gods [Ref: Bennett Ptolemies Berenice-i]

name of her father given in Scol Theocritus 17.34, but is clearly corrupt; correction to Magas is straightforward, and results in her having children named after each of her parents. It is sometimes argued that the name should be amended to Lagus, i.e. half-sister of Ptolemy I. However, while marriage to non-uterine half-siblings was certainly permissible in Macedon, there was no necessity for it. [Ref: Bennett Ptolemies Berenice-i]



Pedigree of Berenike
 /-----Magas
Berenike
|                  /-----Iolaos Prince Of Macedonia
|         /-----Kassandros
 \-----Antigone



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