Cleopatra Thea (Person, Concept)

Canonical URI: http://nomisma.org/id/cleopatra_thea

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Cleopatra Thea (en), Cléopâtre Théa (fr), Cleopatra Tea (it), Kleopatra Thea (de), Κλεοπάτρα Θεά (el), Cleopatra Thea (es)Additional labels
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Cleopatra Thea (en)

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Cleopatra Thea Eueteria ("the Goddess of the Fruitful Season") was a Seleucid queen who ruled alongside her various husbands and son between 150 and 121 BC. She was the daughter of Ptolemy VI who married Alexander I in 150 BC, but after the souring of the relationship between her father and the usurper she was married to Alexander's nemesis, the young Demetrius II in 145 BC. This marriage lasted until Demetrius was captured by the Parthians in 139 BC. When his brother, Antiochus VII, arrived in Syria in the following year Cleopatra married him to maintain her grip on power and to lend him legitimacy. She appears to have orchestrated the death of Demetrius II at the end of his failed second reign and may have ruled briefly in her own right in 125 BC before establishng a co-regency with her young son Antiochus VIII. This came to an end in 121 BC, when he forced her to drink a cup of poison that she had intended for him.

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http://dbpedia.org/resource/Cleopatra_Thea
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http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q231682
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https://ikmk.smb.museum/ndp/person/1032
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https://www.freebase.com/m/015qfy
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http://nomisma.org/id/

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http://nomisma.org/id/greek_numismatics

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