Ptolemy XI Alexander II & Ptolemy XII Auletes

80 BCE–51 BCE · Ptolemaic-Roman

A grouped entry for the very brief Ptolemy XI Alexander II, lynched by the Alexandrians after only days for murdering his co-ruler, and then Ptolemy XII Neos Dionysos ('Auletes', 'the Flute-player'), the father of Cleopatra VII. Ptolemy XII clung to the throne chiefly through massive bribery of, and dependence on, Rome, foreshadowing the dynasty's absorption into the Roman sphere.

The world in their lifetime

Thinkers and teachers of other traditions whose lives overlapped with Ptolemy XI Alexander II & Ptolemy XII Auletes’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.

Graeco-Roman world

Cornelius Nepos· 110 BCE–25 BCE
Catullus· 84 BCE–54 BCE
Sallust· 86 BCE–35 BCE

Jewish world

Avtalyon· 100 BCE–40 BCE
Shemayah· 100 BCE–50 BCE
Hillel the Elder· 110 BCE–10 CE

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