Apame II

Apame II (first half third century BCE): Seleucid princess, wife of Magas of Cyrene.

Relatives:

Father: Antiochus I Soter
Mother: Stratonice I (daughter of Demetrius Poliorcetes and Phila)
Husband: Magas of Cyrene
Children: Berenice II

Main deeds:

c.275: Marriage to Magas of Cyrene, stepbrother of king Ptolemy II Philadelphus of Egypt
Birth of Berenice II
250: Magas and Ptolemy agree to marry Berenice to Ptolemy III Euergetes
250 or 249: Death of Magas; queen Apame agrees to a marriage between Berenice and Demetrius the Fair, who is made king of Cyrene.
Demetrius the Fair is assassinated and Apame almost loses her life; Cyrene recovered for the Ptolemaic empire
Berenice can marry her fiancé. Apame may have settled in Alexandria.

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