The Decline and Fall of the Ptolemies: Ptolemaic Egypt 146–30 BC by John D Grainger
English | December 30th, 2024 | ISBN: 1399090127 | 240 pages | True EPUB | 4.17 MB
The death of Ptolemy VI brought his younger brother Ptolemy VIII to the kingship. This was the start of a prolonged, if intermittent, turbulent period of family strife, punctuated by rebellions, plots and wars. One king, Ptolemy VII, was murdered, Ptolemy VIII’s two simultaneous wives plotted and rebelled, and when he died one of these, Kleopatra III, was his effective successor.