Ptolemy VI Philometor

Coin o Ptolemy VI Philometor

Ring o Ptolemy VI Philometor as Hellenistic keeng

Ring o Ptolemy VI Philometor as Egyptian pharaoh (Louvre)

Ptolemy VI Philometor (Greek: Πτολεμαῖος Φιλομήτωρ, Ptolemaĩos Philomḗtōr, ca. 186–145 BC) wis a keeng o Egypt frae the Ptolemaic period. He reigned frae 180 tae 145 BC.

Ptolemy succeeded in 180 at the age o about 6 an ruled jointly wi his mother, Cleopatra I, until her daith in 176 BC. The following year he married his sister, Cleopatra II.

In 170 BC, Antiochus IV began the saxt Serrien War an invaded Egyp twice. He wis crowned as its keeng in 168, but abandoned his claim on the orders o the Roman Senate.

From 169–164, Egypt wis ruled bi a triumvirate consisting o Ptolemy, his sister-queen an his younger brother kent as Ptolemy VIII Physcon. In 164 he wis driven oot bi his brother an went tae Rome tae seek support, which he received frae Cato. He wis restored the following year bi the intervention o the Alexandrians an ruled uneasily, cruelly suppressing frequent rebellions.

In 152 BC, he briefly ruled jointly wi ane o his sons, kent as Ptolemy Eupator, but it is thought that Ptolemy Eupator dee'd that same year.

External links

• Ptolemy Philometor at LacusCurtius — (Chapter IX of E. R. Bevan's House of Ptolemy, 1923)
• Ptolemy VI — (Egyptian Royal Genealogy)
• Ptolemy VI Philometor entry in historical sourcebook by Mahlon H. Smith

Precedit bi Ptolemy V Epiphanes Cleopatra I	Ptolemaic King of Egypt with Cleopatra I Cleopatra II Ptolemy VIII Physcon 181–164 BCE	Succeedit bi Ptolemy VIII Physcon
Precedit bi Ptolemy VIII Physcon	Ptolemaic King o Egypt with Cleopatra I Cleopatra II Ptolemy VIII Physcon Ptolemy VII Neos Philopator 163–145 BCE	Succeedit bi Cleopatra II Ptolemy VII Neos Philopator

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