Tragic Game of Thrones in Ptolemaic Hellenistic Egypt

Still from the film "Cleopatra", 1963. The article Hellenistic Egypt of the Ptolemies talked a little about the death of Alexander the Great, the rivalry between the diadochi, Ptolemy I Soter, who founded a new state in Egypt, as well as about his first successors. Today we will continue this story.

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TIL Cleopatra was most likely married to her brother, before rejecting him as a co-ruler. While the rejection might have raised a few eyebrows at the time, the incestuous relationship did not.