Berenice II

Relatives:

• Father: Magas of Cyrene
• Mother: Apame II
• First husband: Demetrius the Fair, the son of Demetrius Poliorcetes
• Second husband: Ptolemy III Euergetes
• Children: Ptolemy IV Philopator, Arsinoe III, Berenice, Magas

Main deeds:

• Born after 270
• 250: King Magas of Cyrene and king Ptolemy II Philadelphus agree to marry Berenice to Ptolemy III Euergetes
• 250 or 249: Death of her father, Magas; queen Apame agrees to a marriage between Berenice and Demetrius the Fair, who is made king of Cyrene
• Demetrius the Fair is assassinated; Cyrene recovered for the Ptolemaic empire
• Berenice can marry her fiancé
• January 246: Accession of king Ptolemy III Euergetes
• Summer 246: Outbreak of the Laodicean War; king Ptolemy in Syria and Babylonia. Berenice sacrices her locks, which are believed to have become a new constellation (the subject of a poem by Callimachus)
• 245: Victory at the Nemean Games (horse racing)
• Birth of Ptolemy IV, who soon receives the surname Philopator, 'father-loving'
• February 238: Death of a daughter named Berenice
• Ptolemy IV succeeds father between 5 and 16 February 222; many relatives are killed by his ministers Agathocles and Sosibius
• 221: Ptolemy IV orders the death of his mother and his brother Magas.