Apame II

Relatives

• Father: Antiochus I Soter
• Mother: Stratonice I (daughter of Demetrius Poliorcetes and Phila)
• Husband: Magas of Cyrene
• Children: Berenice II

Main deeds

• c.275: Marriage to Magas of Cyrene, stepbrother of king Ptolemy II Philadelphus of Egypt
• Birth of Berenice II
• 250: Magas and Ptolemy agree to marry Berenice to Ptolemy III Euergetes
• 250 or 249: Death of Magas; queen Apame agrees to a marriage between Berenice and Demetrius the Fair, who is made king of Cyrene.
• Demetrius the Fair is assassinated and Apame almost loses her life; Cyrene recovered for the Ptolemaic empire
• Berenice can marry her fiancé. Apame may have settled in Alexandria.