Ptolemy brings the war with the Seleucid …
Years: 253BCE - 253BCE
Ptolemy brings the war with the Seleucid Empire to an end in 253 by marrying his daughter, Berenice—who he provide with a huge dowry—to his foe Antiochus II.
Under the agreement, Berenice supplants Antiochus' first wife, Laodice, whose children she persuades him to bar from the succession to the throne in favor of her own prospective offspring.
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People
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- Greece, Hellenistic
- Greeks, Hellenistic
- Macedon, Antigonid Kingdom of
- Egypt, Ptolemaic Kingdom of
- Seleucid Kingdom
