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 ( failed attempt to poison her stepson ) ( b. c. 164 BC )

* 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.

Cleopatra III was also known as Cleopatra Euergetis while associated with her husband Ptolemy VIII or her son Ptolemy X.

In the comic book Asterix and Cleopatra, the author Goscinny inserted a pun about alexandrines: when the Druid Panoramix (" Getafix " in the English translation ) meets his Alexandrian ( Egyptian ) friend the latter exclaims Je suis, mon cher ami, || très heureux de te voir at which Panoramix observes C ' est un Alexandrin (" That's an alexandrine!

* Arsinoe IV of Egypt ( died 41 BC ) — ( half ) sister of Cleopatra VII (" Cleopatra ")

Erasmus und Maurice "), Michael Pacher (" Altar of the Church Fathers "), Hans von Aachen (" The Triumph of Truth "), Adam Elsheimer (" The Flight into Egypt "), Johann Liss (" Death of Cleopatra ").

Tryphaena decided that Cleopatra IV should die and over the protests of her husband summoned some soldiers and had Cleopatra IV murdered in the sanctuary of Daphne in Antioch In his comprehensive website about Ptolemaic genealogy, Christopher Bennett also notes the possibility that Cleopatra IV from her brief marriage to Antiochus IX Cyzicenus may have been the mother of the later Seleucid monarch Antiochus X Eusebes (" the Pious "), who would go on to marry Cleopatra IV's younger sister, Cleopatra Selene

* Fantasy Island (" My Fair Pharaoh / The Power ") ( 1980 ) ... as Cleopatra

Software such as Fast Track Team Home Personality Software Greeter 1. 0 ( aka " Cleopatra "), e-Home Automation, ... allows the control to happen from a single computer or television screen, and / or even from a smartphone ( e. g. iPhone ).

Meanwhile, John F. Kennedy's clone ( referred to as " JFK "), a macho, narcissistic womanizer, is also attempting to win over Cleopatra and has a long-standing rivalry with Abe.

They are found in the Celtic region ( Dumnorix: " king of the world "; Kennedy: " ugly head "), in Indo-Aryan languages ( Asvaghosa: " tamer of horses "); in Greek ( Socrates: " good ruler ", Hipparchos: " horse master "; Cleopatra: " from famous lineage ") in Slavic languages ( Vladimir: " great ruler "); in the Germanic languages ( Alfred: " elf-counsel "; Godiva: " gift of God "), and in the Anatolian languages ( Piyama-Radu: " gift of the devotee?

* 30 BC – Cleopatra VII Philopator, the last ruler of the Egyptian Ptolemaic dynasty, commits suicide, allegedly by means of an asp bite.

* Cleopatra II of Egypt ( c. 185 – 116 BC ), queen ( and briefly sole ruler ) of Ptolemaic Egypt

In any event, Caesar withstood the Siege of Alexandria and later he defeated the pharaoh's forces at the Battle of the Nile in 47 BC and installed Cleopatra as ruler.

* Cleopatra VII of Egypt, Egyptian ruler

* Cleopatra Selene ( II ), Egyptian ruler of Cyrenaica and Libya ( b. 40 BC )

* Ptolemy XII deposes Cleopatra V, and becomes sole ruler.

Cleopatra originally ruled jointly with her father, Ptolemy XII Auletes, and later with her brothers, Ptolemy XIII and Ptolemy XIV, whom she married as per Egyptian custom, but eventually she became sole ruler.

At the Donations of Alexandria in late 34 BC, following Antony's conquest of Armenia, Cleopatra and Caesarion were crowned co-rulers of Egypt and Cyprus ; Alexander Helios was crowned ruler of Armenia, Media, and Parthia ; Cleopatra Selene II was crowned ruler of Cyrenaica and Libya ; and Ptolemy Philadelphus was crowned ruler of Phoenicia, Syria, and Cilicia.

Moreover, as is well-known, the historical Antony and Cleopatra were the prototypes and antitypes for Virgil ’ s Dido and Aeneas: Dido, ruler of the north African city of Carthage, tempts Aeneas, the legendary exemplar of Roman pietas, to forego his task of founding Rome after the fall of Troy.

He also mentions losing himself in dotage-“ himself ” referring to Antony as Roman ruler and authority over people including Cleopatra.

What is said about Cleopatra is not always what one would normally say about a ruler ; the image that is created makes the audience expect “ to see on stage not a noble Sovereign, but a dark, dangerous, evil, sensual and lewd creature who has harnessed the ‘ captain ’ s heart ”.

However, particularly in earlier criticism, the narrative trajectory of Rome ’ s triumph and Cleopatra ’ s perceived weakness as a ruler have allowed readings that privilege Shakespeare ’ s representation of a Roman worldview.

For Shakespeare ’ s Antony and Cleopatra, the exclusivity and superiority supplied by pleasure created the disconnect between the ruler and the subjects.

She became known as " Cleopatra " after the Ancient Egyptian ruler.

After the defeat of Antony and Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium, Cleopatra seems to have groomed Caesarion to take over as " sole ruler without his mother.