Daughter of Ptolemy
VIII & Cleopatra III.
Sister & second wife of Ptolemy
IX.
Second wife of Antiochus VIII &
his brother, Antiochus
IX.
Wife of her step-son Antiochus
X & mother of Antiochus
XIII.
Cleopatra Selene was both pawn &
player in the dynastic rivalries that rocked the thrones of Egypt &
Syria in the late 3rd & early 2nd c.
BCE. Her marriage to her
brother, Ptolemy IX, was dissolved by their mother's expulsion of the
latter (107
BCE). About four years later she was married to the heir
to the Seleucid throne, who died (97
BCE) without siring an heir.
Her third marriage to her brother-in-law lasted less than a year.
When her 4th husband was killed in a civil war with his cousins (83
BCE),
she ruled a divided Syria as regent for her young son. Her
tumultuous reign finally ended when she was captured & executed by
Tigranes II of Armenia at Ptolemaïs (Syria).
References:
Josephus,
Antiquities 13.420,
War 1.116.
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