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121:. The maternal grandmothers of Apama and Magas were paternal first cousins. The fathers of their grandmothers were brothers. Apama is sometimes known as Arsinoe. After she married Magas, there is a possibility Apama changed her name to Arsinoe, which was a more familiar Ptolemaic name. Apama was related to the Ptolemaic dynasty through marriage and was a distant relative of
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