Ptolemy, father of Cleopatra and the royal siblings
Person
Civil War 3.4 supplies the first indexed source portrait: “… The young Pompeius had brought with his fleet five hundred of the Gabinian troops from Alexandria, Gauls and Germans, whom A. Gabinius had left there with King Ptolomaeus on garrison duty. …”
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Civil War 3.4
Caesar
… The young Pompeius had brought with his fleet five hundred of the Gabinian troops from Alexandria, Gauls and Germans, whom A. Gabinius had left there with King Ptolomaeus on garrison duty. …
Alexandrian War 4
Pseudo-Caesar; authorship disputed
Meanwhile a quarrel had arisen—as related above—between Achillas, who commanded the veteran army, and Arsinoe, the younger daughter of king Ptolemaeus and with each party plotting against the other and anxious to obtain the supreme power for himself, Arsinoe, acting through the eunuch Ganymedes, her tutor, struck the first blow and killed Achillas. …
Civil War 3.103
Caesar
… In the number of these men were very many soldiers of Pompeius, whom Gabinius had taken over from his army in Syria and had transported to Alexandria, and on the conclusion of the war had left them with Ptolomaeus, the youth’s father.
Explicit source relations
- Ptolemy, father of Cleopatra and the royal siblings — father of — Cleopatra · Dossier · Civil War 3.108 · Civil War 3.103
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Civil War 3.4 · Civil War 3.103 · Civil War 3.107 · Civil War 3.108 · Civil War 3.109 · Civil War 3.110 · Civil War 3.112 · Alexandrian War 4 · Alexandrian War 33