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LINEAGE

        Lysimachus   1. Ptolemy I
Soter

[323 - 282 BCE]
= Berenice I    
        |   ___________ | _______    
        |   |   |    
     Arsinoë I = 2. Ptolemy II
Philadelphus

[282 - 246 BCE]
= Arsinoë II    
    _______ | ___________        
    |   |        
 Antiochus II
Theos
= Berenice   3. Ptolemy III
Euergetes

[246 - 221 BCE]
= Berenice II    
        ___________ | _______    
        |   |    
        4. Ptolemy IV
Philopator

[221 - 205 BCE]
= Arsinoë III    
        |        
        |        
        5. Ptolemy V
Epiphanes

[205 - 180 BCE]
= 6. Cleopatra I
Syra

[180 - 178 BCE]
   
    _______ _ ______________________ | _______    
    |   |   |    
    7. Ptolemy VI
Philometor

[180 - 145 BCE]
= 8. Cleopatra II
[170 - 116 BCE]
= 10. Ptolemy VIII
Physcon

[145 - 116 BCE] 
   
 _______ _ _______________ | ___________      
 |   |   |      
Demetrius II
Nicator
=  Cleopatra
Thea
  9. Ptolemy VII
Neos Philopator

[145 - 144 BCE]
11. Cleopatra III
[116 - 101 BCE]
=    
_______ _ _______________ _ ______________________ | _______    
|   |   | |   |    
Antiochus IX
Cyzicenus
= Cleopatra IV = 12. Ptolemy IX
Lathyrus

[116-107, 88-80 BCE]
  Cleopatra
Selene
= 13. Ptolemy X
Alexander

[107-88 BCE]
Tryphaena = Antiochus VIII
Grypus
___ _ ______________ | _______   |        
? |   |   |        
Cleopatra V = 15. Ptolemy XII
Auletes

[ 80-58, 55-51 BCE]
  Berenice III
[81-80 BCE]
= 14. Ptolemy XI
Alexander II

[80 BCE]
       
___ |  ______________ _ _______________ _ ______________________ _ ______________ _ ___
|  |    |       |    |
16. Berenice IV
[58 - 55 BCE]
17. Ptolemy XIII
Theos Philopator
 
[51 - 47 BCE]
  18. Cleopatra VII
[51 - 30 BCE]
 \ Julius Caesar 19. Ptolemy XIV
Theos Philopator II

[47 - 44 BCE]
  Arsinoë
IV

     |  \        
     20. Ptolemy XV
Caesarion

[44 - 30 BCE]
  Marc Antony        

 

Key
   King of Egypt             King of Macedonia 
   Queen descended from Ptolemy     Queen from Macedonia 
   King of Syria    Roman ruler
   Queen descended from Seleucus    Commoner
   Queen from Cyrene (Libya) [  ]  Year(s) of active reign
=  double line > married     |      single line > descendents
1.  Numeral preceding name = order of succession     \     slash > lover
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