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Cleopatra II of Egypt in Wikipedia

Cleopatra II (in Greek, Κλεοπάτρα - c. 185–116 BC) was a queen (and briefly sole ruler) of Ptolemaic Egypt Family Cleopatra II was the daughter of Ptolemy V and likely Cleopatra I. She was the sister of Ptolemy VI and Ptolemy VIII Euergetes II Tryphon. She would eventually marry both of her brothers.[1][2] Her first marriage was with her brother ...

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Cleopatra VII in Wikipedia

Cleopatra VII Philopator (in Greek, Κλεοπάτρα Φιλοπάτωρ; (Late 69 BC[1] – August 12, 30 BC) was the last person to rule Egypt as an Egyptian pharaoh – after her death Egypt became a Roman province. She was a member of the Ptolemaic dynasty of Ancient Egypt, and therefore was a descendant of one of Alexander the Great's generals who had seized cont...

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Cleombrŏtus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

A king of Sparta, who succeeded his brother Agesipolis I. He was defeated by Epaminondas in the battle of Leuctra, and lost his life on that occasion....

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Cleopatra III of Egypt in Wikipedia

Cleopatra III (Greek: Κλεοπάτρα, 161–101 BC) was queen of Egypt 142–101 BC. Cleopatra III was also known as Cleopatra Euergetis while associated with her husband Ptolemy VIII or her son Ptolemy X. She is attested as Cleopatra Philometor Soteira while associated with her eldest son Ptolemy IX. According to Strabo she was sometimes known as Cleopatr...

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Cleomenes of Naucratis in Wikipedia

Cleomenes (in Greek, Kλεoμενης; died 322 BC), a Greek of Naucratis in Egypt, was appointed by Alexander III of Macedon as nomarch of the Arabian district (νoμoς) of Egypt and receiver of the tributes from all the districts of Egypt and the neighbouring part of Africa (331 BC). Some of the ancient writers say that Alexander made him satrap of Egypt;...

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Cleopatra VI of Egypt in Wikipedia

Cleopatra VI Tryphaena (Greek: Κλεοπάτρα Τρύφαινα) was an Egyptian Ptolemaic queen. She may be identical with Cleopatra V. There were at least two, perhaps three Ptolemaic women called Cleopatra Tryphaena: * The daughter of Ptolemy VIII Physcon and Cleopatra III, sister of Ptolemy IX Lathyros, Ptolemy X Alexander I, Cleopatra IV and Cleopatra Se...

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Cleitarchus in Wikipedia

Cleitarchus or Clitarchus (Greek: Κλείταρχος), one of the historians of Alexander the Great, son of the historian Dinon of Colophon, was possibly a native of Egypt, or at least spent a considerable time at the court of Ptolemy Lagus. Quintilian (Instit. x. I. 74) credits him with more ability than trustworthiness, and Cicero (Brutus, II) accuses h...

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Cleomedes in Wikipedia

Cleomedes (Κλεoμήδης) was a Greek astronomer who is known chiefly for his book On the Circular Motions of the Celestial Bodies. Placing his work chronologically His birth and death dates are not known-historians have suggested that he wrote his work sometime between the mid-1st century BC and 400 AD. The earlier estimates rely on the fact that Cle...

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Cleopatra IV of Egypt in Wikipedia

Cleopatra IV (Greek : Κλεοπάτρα) was Queen of Egypt briefly from 116-115 BC, jointly with her husband Ptolemy IX Lathyros. She later became queen consort of Syria as the wife of Antiochus IX Cyzicenus.[1][2] Biography Cleopatra IV was the daughter of Ptolemy VIII Physcon and Cleopatra III of Egypt. She was born between 138 and 135 BC. She was the ...

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Cleon in Wikipedia

Cleon (Greek: Κλέων, sometimes Kleon) (d. 422 BCE) was an Athenian statesman and a Strategos during the Peloponnesian War. He was the first prominent representative of the commercial class in Athenian politics, although he was an aristocrat himself. Contemporaries Thucydides and Aristophanes represented him as a warmonger and a demagogue; modern hi...

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