11) Ptolemy II. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 ...B.C., king of ancient Egypt (285-246 B.C.), of the Macedonian dynasty, son of Ptolemy I and Berenice (c.340-281 B.C.). He continued his father's efforts to make Alexandria... 12) Ptolemy IV. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 ..., king of ancient Egypt (221-205 B.C.), of the Macedonian dynasty, son of Ptolemy III and Berenice of Cyrene. He had his mother, his brother, his uncle, and possibly... 13) Ptolemy III. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 ...II and the first Arsinoe. He plunged immediately into a war with Syria, where his sister, Berenice, was trying to secure the throne for her son. Berenice and her... 14) Seleucus II. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 ...On his father's death there was a struggle for the throne between Seleucus and his stepmother, Berenice (on behalf of her infant son). Seleucus seems to have murdered... 15) Antiochus II. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 ...warfare with Ptolemy II he had sporadic successes, but his marriage to Ptolemy's daughter Berenice sealed the peace, and most of the Syrian possessions his father... 16) Otway, Thomas. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 ...the rhymed heroic tragedy Don Carlos (1672); an adaptation of Racine, called Titus and Berenice, (1676); and an adaptation of Moliere, called The Cheats of Scapin.... 17) Benghazi. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 ...(7th cent. B.C.) the colony of Hesperides, which was later (3d cent. B.C.) renamed Berenice after the wife of Ptolemy III of Egypt. Under the Romans, who conquered... 18) Coptos. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 ...was of importance in Hellenistic times, when it was the terminus of a caravan route to Berenice on the Red Sea. It was built up by Augustus, fell to the Blemmyes... 19) Ptolemy I. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 ...of Antipater (though he soon shifted his affection to her niece and his own half sister, Berenice). He defeated (321) Perdiccas, and he at first supported Antigonus... 20) Cyrene. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 ...by the Ptolemies of Egypt, it seems to have had nominal independence until the marriage of Berenice (d. 221?), daughter of Cyrene's king, to Ptolemy III. Cyrene remained... |