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Like her brother, Theoxena was born between 301 BC-298 BC. Along with her brother they were born and raised in Sicily. When
Agathocles felt his death was approaching, he had sent away the elder Theoxena and their children to Egypt. Theoxena’s father died in 289 BC and her father declared his kingdom
197:. Theoxena had brought false accusations to Ptolemy II against parties she knew. The names of these persons are lost as they were recorded on a papyrus, which has been damaged. It can be chronologically plausible that these events were connected to the exile of
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Little is known on the adult life of
Theoxena. Theoxena married an unknown person whose name is lost. By her husband, Theoxena had two children; one child whose name is lost and a son called
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the first Greek
Pharaoh and founder of the Ptolemaic dynasty. Through her grandmother’s second marriage to Ptolemy I, Berenice I was an Egyptian Queen and the Queen mother of the
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as a democracy on his death. Theoxena, her brother with their mother; spent their remaining youth in Egypt, possibly in the court living with
Ptolemy I and Berenice I in
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Her biological maternal grandfather Philip died about 318 BC. After his death, Berenice I travelled with her children to live in
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in
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172:Alexandria
165:Early life
151:Arsinoe II
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191:Thebaid
113:Phalanx
79:Lanassa
29:Θεόξενα
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117:Regent
105:Philip
139:Egypt
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