Online Encyclopedia

Search over 40,000 articles from the original, classic Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition.

BERENICE, or BERNICE

Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 769 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
» Make a correction to this article.
» Add information or comments to this article.
Spread the word: del.icio.us del.icio.us it!

See also:

BERENICE, or BERNICE , the Macedonian forms of the See also:Greek Pherenice, the name of (A) five See also:Egyptian and (B) two Jewish princesses. (A) I. BERENICE, daughter of Lagus, wife of an obscure Macedonian soldier and subsequently of See also:Ptolemy See also:Soter, with whose See also:bride See also:Eurydice she came to See also:Egypt as a See also:lady-in-waiting. Her son, Ptolemy Philadelphus, was recognized as See also:heir over the M. 2$769 heads of Eurydice's See also:children. So See also:great was her ability and her See also:influence that See also:Pyrrhus of See also:Epirus gave the name Berenicis to a new See also:city. Her son Philadelphus decreed divine honours to her on her See also:death. (See See also:Theocritus, Idylls xv. and xvii.) 2. BERENICE, daughter of Ptolemy Philadelphus, wife of See also:Antiochus Theos of See also:Syria, who, according to agreement with Ptolemy (249), had divorced his wife Laodice and transferred the See also:succession to Berenice's children. On Ptolemy's death, Antiochus repudiated Berenice and took back Laodice, who, however, at once poisoned him and murdered Berenice and her son. The prophecy in See also:Daniel xi. 6 seq. refers to these events.

3. BERENICE, the daughter of Magas, See also:

king of See also:Cyrene, and the wife of Ptolemy III. Euergetes. During her See also:husband's See also:absence on an expedition to Syria, she dedicated her See also:hair to See also:Venus for his safe return, and placed it in the See also:temple of the goddess at Zephyrium. The hair having by some unknown means disappeared, See also:Conon of See also:Samos, the mathematician and astronomer, explained the phenomenon in courtly phrase, by saying that it had been carried to the heavens and placed among the stars. The name See also:Coma .Berenices, applied to a See also:constellation, commemorates this incident. See also:Callimachus celebrated the transformation in a poem, of which only a few lines remain, but there is a See also:fine See also:translation of it by See also:Catullus. Soon after her husband's death (221 B.c.) she was murdered at the instigation of her son Ptolemy IV., with whom she was probably associated in the See also:government. 4. BERENICE, also called See also:CLEOPATRA, daughter of Ptolemy X., married as her second husband See also:Alexander II., See also:grandson of Ptolemy VII. He murdered her three See also:weeks afterwards. 5.

BERENICE, daughter of Ptolemy Auletes, eldest See also:

sister of the great Cleopatra. The Alexandrines placed her on the See also:throne in succession to her See also:father (58 B.C.). She married Seleucus Cybiosactes, but soon caused him to be slain, and married See also:Archelaus, who had been made king of See also:Comana in See also:Pontus (or in See also:Cappadocia) by See also:Pompey. Auletes was restored and put both Berenice and Archelaus to death in S5 B.C. ` (B) 1. BERENICE, daughter of See also:Salome, sister of See also:Herod I., and wife of her See also:cousin See also:Aristobulus, who was assassinated in 6 B.C. Their relations had been unhappy and she was accused of complicity in his See also:murder. By Aristobulus she was the See also:mother of Herod See also:Agrippa I. Her second husband, Theudion, See also:uncle on the mother's See also:side of See also:Antipater, son of Herod I., having been put to death for conspiring against Herod, she married Archelaus. Subsequently she went to See also:Rome and enjoyed the favour of the imperial See also:household. 2. BERENICE, daughter of Agrippa I., king of See also:Judaea, and See also:born probably about A.D.

28. She was first married to See also:

Marcus, son of the alabarchl Alexander of See also:Alexandria. On his See also:early death she was married to her father's See also:brother, Herod of See also:Chalcis, after whose death (A.D. 48) she lived for some years with her brother, Agrippa II. Her third husband was Polemon, king of See also:Cilicia, but she soon deserted him, and returned to Agrippa, with whom she was living in 6o when See also:Paul appeared before him at Caesarea (Acts See also:xxvi.). During the devastation of Judaea by the See also:Romans, she fascinated See also:Titus, whom along with Agrippa she followed to Rome as his promised wife (A.D. 75), When he became See also:emperor (A.D. 79) he dismissed her finally, though reluctantly, to her own See also:country. Her influence had been exercised vainly on behalf of the See also:Jews in A.D. 66, but the burning of her See also:palace alienated her sympathies. For her influence see See also:Juvenal, Satires, vi., and See also:Tacitus, Hist. ii. 2.

End of Article: BERENICE, or BERNICE

Additional information and Comments

There are no comments yet for this article.
» Add information or comments to this article.
Please link directly to this article:
Highlight the code below, right click, and select "copy." Then paste it into your website, email, or other HTML.
Site content, images, and layout Copyright © 2006 - Net Industries, worldwide.
Do not copy, download, transfer, or otherwise replicate the site content in whole or in part.

Links to articles and home page are always encouraged.

[back]
BERENICE 		[next]
BERESFORD, JOHN (1738-1805)

Site © 2006 - Net Industries