Alexander Balas and Cleopatra Thea.

Alexander Balas and Cleopatra Thea.

He married Cleopatra Thea, a daughter of the Ptolemaic dynasty.

* Cleopatra Thea ( c. 164 – 121 BC ), daughter of Cleopatra II and Ptolemy VI Philometor

* 164 BC – Cleopatra Thea Euergetis (" Benefactress "), ruler of the Seleucid kingdom from 125 BC, a daughter of Ptolemy VI of Egypt and his sister / wife Cleopatra II ( d. 121 BC ) ( approximate date )

* The new king of the Seleucid Empire, Alexander Balas, marries Cleopatra Thea, a daughter of Ptolemy VI Philometor of Egypt.

Due to his youth, his stepmother Cleopatra Thea acts as regent.

* Cleopatra Thea succeeds to the rule of the Seleucid Empire on the death of Seleucus V. She appoints Antiochus VIII Grypus as co-ruler.

* Seleucus V Philometor ( killed by Cleopatra Thea )

* Cleopatra Thea Euergetis (" Benefactress "), ruler of the Seleucid kingdom from 125 BC, a daughter of Ptolemy VI of Egypt and his sister / wife Cleopatra II ( d. 121 BC ) ( approximate date )

* Antiochus VI Dionysus ( 148 – 138 BC ), king of the Seleucid Empire, son of Alexander Balas and Cleopatra Thea

* Antiochus IX Cyzicenus ( died 96 BC ), ruler of the Seleucid Empire, son of Antiochus VII Sidetes and Cleopatra Thea, half-brother of Antiochus VIII

2nd century BC ), daughter of Cleopatra Thea and Demetrius II Nicator, who married Phraates II of Parthia

2nd century BC ), presumed daughter of Antiochus VII Sidetes and Cleopatra Thea

* Laodice VII Thea ( born after 122 BC ), daughter of Antiochus VIII Grypus and Cleopatra Tryphaena, wife of Mithridates I Callinicus and mother of Antiochus I Theos of Commagene

The Egyptian king also divorced his daughter Cleopatra Thea from Balas and remarried her to Demetrius.

The Babylonian province of the Seleucid empire became Parthian, but in Syria was the dynasty's grip was reassured under Antiochus VII Sidetes, the younger brother of Demetrius, who also married Cleopatra Thea.

He fled to Ptolemais but his wife Cleopatra Thea closed the gates against him.

He was succeeded by his queen Cleopatra Thea and then by two of their sons, Seleucus V Philometor and Antiochus VIII Grypus.

This can be concluded from date formulas on the papyri written in the years from 179 BC to 176 BC, where Cleopatra I is called Thea Epiphanes and her name is written before that of her son.

* Cleopatra Thea born in ca 164 BC.

The second attempt on Cyprus also failed, and Philometor captured Physcon, but spared him, offering him the hand of his daughter Cleopatra Thea, and sent him back to Cyrenaica.

The opening presentation, to a capacity audience, was the ballet Cleopatra ; however its initial presentations failed to gain popular support and for several years it struggled to make a profit.

In similar fashion, the isolation and examination of the stage image of Cleopatra becomes an attempt to improve the understanding of the theatrical power of her infinite variety and the cultural treatment of that power .” So, as a microcosm, Cleopatra can be understood within a postmodern context, as long as one understands that the purpose for the examination of this microcosm is to further one ’ s own interpretation of the work as a whole.

Arthur Holmberg surmises, “ What had at first seemed like a desperate attempt to be chic in a trendy New York manner was, in fact, an ingenious way to characterize the differences between Antony ’ s Rome and Cleopatra ’ s Egypt.

In the show, it is strongly implied that he is actually the son of the soldier Titus Pullo by Cleopatra, who seduces Pullo in an attempt to become pregnant at about the same time she begins her affair with Caesar.

This first attempt by Disney at producing an Alice feature was eventually tabled when Paramount released their own 1933 live-action version, with a script by Cleopatra director Joseph Mankiewicz ( brother of Citizen Kane ( 1941 ) scribe Herman J. Mankiewicz ) and a cast that included Gary Cooper as the White Knight, Cary Grant as the Mock Turtle, and W. C. Fields as Humpty Dumpty.

The only ruler to whom the narrative can properly refer is Ptolemy V Epiphanes ( 205-182 ), who in 193 BCE married Cleopatra, the daughter of Antiochus III In that case, however, Joseph could not have farmed the Egyptian taxes, since Cœle-Syria was then under Syrian, and not under Egyptian, suzerainty, while the assertion that the two powers had divided the revenues of the country is merely an attempt on the part of Josephus to evade the difficulty.

In an attempt to escape Ramses, Cleopatra " dies " when her car is hit by a train and is consumed by a fiery explosion so hot that it " could kill even an immortal.

Cleopatra resolves to kill herself, using the poison of an asp.

Shortly thereafter, Hans is taken ill. Cleopatra has poisoned his wine at the wedding, and continues slipping poison into Hans ' medicine so that she can inherit his money and run away with Hercules.

Pothinus tries to poison Cleopatra, but the plot is discovered in time, whereupon he is put on trial ( with no witnesses testifying ), pronounced guilty, and sentenced to death by Caesar.

The final conflict was provoked by Antony, who is said to have been persuaded by his lover, the queen Cleopatra of Egypt, to retire to her land and give battle to mask his retreat ; but lack of provisions and the growing demoralization of his army would eventually account for this decision.

Antony seized the opportunity and with Cleopatra on her ship and him on a different ship, sped through the gap and escaped, abandoning his entire force.

At Samos, Octavian received a message from Cleopatra with the present of a gold crown and throne, offering to abdicate in favour of her sons.

Failing to escape on board a ship, he stabbed himself ; and, as he did not die at once, insisted on being taken to the mausoleum in which Cleopatra was shut up, and there died in her arms.

After Mark Antony's death, Cleopatra eluded the vigilance of her guard Epaphroditus and committed suicide, on 12 August 30 BC.

The most well known of these relationships were in the royal family, the Ptolemies ; The famous Cleopatra VII was married to her younger brother, Ptolemy XIII.

Herod originally leased Jericho from Cleopatra, after Mark Antony gave it to her as a gift.

Leaving Octavia pregnant with her second child Antonia in Rome, he sailed to Alexandria, where he expected funding from Cleopatra, the mother of his twins.

A map of the Donations of Alexandria ( by Mark Antony to Cleopatra and her children ) in 34 BC.

Surrounded by Cleopatra and her children, Antony ended his alliance with Octavian.

When he found out that Cleopatra was still alive, his friends brought him to Cleopatra's monument in which she was hiding, and he died in her arms.

The most famous member of the line was the last queen, Cleopatra VII, known for her role in the Roman political battles between Julius Caesar and Pompey, and later between Octavian and Mark Antony.

* 44 BC – Pharaoh Cleopatra VII of Egypt declares her son co-ruler as Ptolemy XV Caesarion.

During her 30-year stage career, she played roles ranging from the heroines of Noël Coward and George Bernard Shaw comedies to classic Shakespearean characters such as Ophelia, Cleopatra, Juliet and Lady Macbeth.

Leigh was well enough to resume acting in 1946, in a successful London production of Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth ; but her films of this period, Caesar and Cleopatra ( 1945 ) and Anna Karenina ( 1948 ), were not great successes.

** Siege of Alexandria: Queen Cleopatra VII returns to the palace rolled into a Persian carpet and has it presented to Caesar by her servant.

* June 12 – Pocahontas ( now Rebecca ) arrives in England, with her husband, John Rolfe, their infant son, Thomas Rolfe, her half-sister Matachanna ( alias Cleopatra ) and brother-in-law " Tomocomo ", the shaman also known as Uttamatomakkin.

* Cleopatra III of Egypt assassinated by her son Ptolemy X Alexander I ( b. 161 BC )

** Pharaoh Cleopatra VII of Egypt declares her son co-ruler as Ptolemy XV Caesarion.

* Pharaoh Cleopatra VII of Egypt ( lived 70 / 69 – 30 BC, reigned 51 – 30 BC )— enters her twenties, has son Caesarion with Julius Caesar, before meeting Mark Antony

* Pharaoh Cleopatra VII of Egypt ( lived 70 / 69 – 30 BC, reigned 51 – 30 BC )— meets Julius Caesar and later becomes teenager Pharaoh, after her brothers die young.

She was said to be even more beautiful than Cleopatra, differing though in her reputation for extreme chastity.

After playing the lead role in Two Nights with Cleopatra ( 1953 ), her breakthrough role was in The Gold of Naples ( 1954 ), directed by Vittorio De Sica.

Marc Anthony gave the island to Cleopatra VII of Egypt and her sister Arsinoe IV, but it became a Roman province again after his defeat at the Battle of Actium ( 31 BC ) in 30 BC.