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Oenanthe of Egypt

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118:, who reigned from 221 BC to 205 BC. Through her children she was able to possess the greatest influence over the government in the reign of Ptolemy IV. Agathoclea became the favourite mistress of Ptolemy IV and, later, Agathocles became the regent and guardian of Ptolemy IV’s child, 125:
Oenanthe’s influence only lasted until Ptolemy IV died. In 205 BC, after the accession of the young Ptolemy V, the citizens of Alexandria rose up against Oenanthe, her family and their party, who fled for refuge to the temple of the
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Agathocles died at an unknown date. Oenanthe later remarried to Theogenes, sometimes known as Theognetos or Diognetos. Theogenes was a prominent Egyptian Greek who was a
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Oenanthe was an ambitious and avaricious character. She introduced Agathoclea and Agathocles to the Egyptian Greek Pharaoh
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and brought naked on horse-back to the stadium, where they were all murdered, being torn into pieces.
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The next day Oenanthe, her family and their party, were dragged out from the altar by the
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noblewoman, who was the second older maternal half-sister of the Greek Egyptian Pharaoh
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She was a woman of obscure origins. She had married (at an unknown date)
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Greek
Egyptian
Greek noblewoman
Ptolemaic dynasty
Agathocles
Egyptian
Greek nobleman
Agathocles of Syracuse
Syracuse
Sicily
Theoxena of Syracuse
Greek
Macedonian
Ptolemy II Philadelphus
Agathocles of Egypt
Agathoclea
dioiketes
Ptolemy IV Philopator
Ptolemy V Epiphanes
Thesmophorium
Alexandrians
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