Berenice I of Egypt

Berenice I of Egypt in Wikipedia

Berenice I (c. 340 BC-between 279-274 BC) was a Greek Macedonian noblewoman and through her marriage to Ptolemy I Soter, became the first Queen of the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt. Family Berenice was the daughter of an obscure local nobleman called Magas and Antigone [1]. Her maternal grandfather was a nobleman called Cassander who was the brother ...

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Berenice I of Egypt in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiq

The granddaughter of Cassander, brother of Antipater. She married Philip, a Macedonian, probably one of the officers of Alexander, and became by him the mother of many children, among whom were Magas, king of Cyrené, and Antigoné, whom she married to Pyrrhus, king of Epirus. She followed into Egypt Eurydicé, daughter of Antipater, who returned to t...

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