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Berenice I
Berenice I (c.340-c.277): Macedonian lady, queen of the Ptolemaic Empire.
Relatives
- Father: Magas
- Mother: Antigone, a relative of Antipater
- First husband: Philip
- Daughter: Antigone (married Pyrrhus of Epirus)
- Son: Magas
- Second husband: Ptolemy I Soter
- Son: Ptolemy II Philadelphus
- Daughers: Arsinoe II, Philotera
Main deeds
- c.340: Born
- c.325: Marries Philip
- Birth of Antigone
- Birth of Magas
- 11 June 323: Death of Alexander in Babylon (text); outbreak of civil war
- Perdiccas becomes very powerful; other commanders in Alexander's army join against him
- c.321: Antipater concludes alliances against Perdiccas. His daughter Eurydice marries Ptolemy I Soter; in her company is Berenice, who also marries the king of Egypt.
- 316: Birth of Arsinoe II
- 308: Birth of Ptolemy II Philadelphus
- Birth of Philotera
- 301: Magas conquers Cyrenaica
- c.298: Antigone marries Pyrrhus of Epirus
- Rivalry between Eurydice and Berenice; Eurydice flees to Greece
- Ptolemy II Philadelphus succeeds his father
- c.277: Death of the queen mother