Ptolemy IX Soter II & Ptolemy X Alexander I (with Cleopatra III)

116 BCE–88 BCE · Ptolemaic-Roman

A grouped entry for two brothers, Ptolemy IX Soter II ('Lathyros') and Ptolemy X Alexander I, who alternated on the throne through the manipulations of their mother Cleopatra III amid continual dynastic strife. Their overlapping reigns are a maze of expulsions and restorations; the final destruction of Thebes after a revolt (88 BCE) falls in this period.

The world in their lifetime

Thinkers and teachers of other traditions whose lives overlapped with Ptolemy IX Soter II & Ptolemy X Alexander I (with Cleopatra III)’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.

Jewish world

Yehuda ben Tabbai· 130 BCE–70 BCE
Shimon ben Shetach· 130 BCE–60 BCE
Choni HaMe'agel (Honi the Circle-Drawer)· 110 BCE–60 BCE

Graeco-Roman world

Posidonius of Apamea· 135 BCE–51 BCE
Lucretius· 99 BCE–55 BCE
Cicero· 106 BCE–43 BCE

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