| • Science | • People | • Locations | • Timeline |
Ptolemy succeeded in 180 at the age of about 12 and ruled jointly with his mother, Cleopatra I, until her death in 176 BC. The following year he married his sister, Cleopatra II.
In 170 BC, Antiochus IV began the sixth Syrian War and invaded Egypt twice. He was crowned as its king in 168, but abandoned his claim on the orders of the Roman Senate. From 169- 164 Egypt was ruled by a triumvirate consisting of Ptolemy, his sister-queen and his younger brother known as Ptolemy VIII, but in 164 he was driven out by his brother and went to Rome to seek support, which he received from Cato. He was restored the following year by the intervention of the Alexandrians and ruled uneasily, cruelly suppressing frequent rebellions, until he was killed in Syria, fighting against Alexander Balas.
| Preceded by: Ptolemy VPtolemy V Epiphanes (reigned 204- 181 BC), son of Ptolemy IV Philopator and Arsinoe, was not more than five years old when he came to the throne, and under a series of regents the kingdom was paralysed. Antiochus III the Great and Philip V of Macedonia ma | Ptolemaic King of Egypt | Succeeded by: Ptolemy VIIPtolemy VII was an Egyptian king of the Ptolemaic period. Son of Ptolemy VI, he reigned briefly with his father in 145 BC, and for a short time after that. He was murdered by his uncle, Ptolemy VIII, who succeeded him. Pharaohs. |