Episode T16 – The Sons of Thea

The Ancient World

Scott C.

History

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🗓️ 13 March 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Synopsis: While the Ptolemies intrigue in Coele Syria, Antiochus VIII Grypus and his half-brother Antiochus IX Cyzicenus struggle for seventeen years to win control of the north. After the rivals die in quick succession, the kingdom comes under control of Seleucus VI and Demetrius III, the allied sons of Grypus. “Then Grypus proceeded to besiege Antioch, the city where Cyzicenus’ wife Cleopatra (IV) was to be found, and when it was captured Tryphaena, the wife of Grypus, ordered that the highest priority be given to hunting down her sister…to ensure that she escape one of the miseries of captivity. For Tryphaena believed that it was from feelings of jealousy towards herself that Cleopatra had entered this kingdom rather than any other, and that she had declared herself her sister’s enemy by marrying her sister’s foe.” – Justin, Epitome of the Philippic History of Pompeius Trogus, Book 39 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Scott. If you're a fan of the ancient world, please help us get the word out.
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0:13.0	Thanks again for listening. Okay, so we left things off with the young king Antiochus the 8th Griepus murdering his mother
0:35.1	Cleopatra Thea in 121 BC. After which Griepus and his wife Queen Queen Trifena, actually enjoyed a few quiet years, running the
0:46.8	kingdom, having the kids, etc.
0:50.4	Though they often get flack for not trying harder to recover more
0:54.2	solucid territory. In 116 the multiple filicide and all-around
1:00.6	pot-bellied monster, the Egyptian Pharaoh Ptolemy the 8th Fizcon, finally died at the age of 68.
1:09.6	And I'm shooting off a few mental rockets and noise makers to celebrate that glorious milestone.
1:16.5	The following year saw the death of his sister, the 70-year-old Queen Cleopatra II.
1:24.2	With their departure, the torch was passed to a whole new generation, who were pretty much
1:30.4	exactly as horrible as the one they just gotten rid of.
1:35.9	The new Pharaoh was the 28 year old Ptolemy the 9th, called Lothirose, which means chickpea. So yeah, he needs to step up his nickname game a bit. His
1:48.6	younger brother, Ptolemy Alexander, was given control of Cyprus. But the real Queen Alexander was
1:54.0	the real queen of the family pyramid
1:56.0	their mother, Fiz Khan's former wife
2:00.0	and Cleopatra Thea's younger sister, Cleopatra the third.
2:05.0	She was later known as the Dark Queen, which sounds pretty cool,
2:10.0	so I'm going to start calling her that. You may remember her early abuse at Fizcom's hands and the fact that she
2:18.3	birthed him five children in the space of eight years, all before she was 22.
2:25.0	When Fizcon died, the Dark Queen was 42,
2:29.0	and ready to play the Kingmaker in a very real sense, which mainly meant mixing and matching her children's
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