Ptolemy Apion

 ( Kings Of Cyrene ) 

Ptolemy Apion or simply known as Apion (; between 150 BC and 145 BC – 96 BC) was the last Greek King of Cyrenaica who separated it from the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, and in his last will bequeathed his country to Roman Empire. He was a member of the Ptolemaic dynasty.

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Biography Apion was the son of Ptolemy VIII Physcon, king of Egypt (170-165, 145-132, and 127-116) and king of Cyrene and Cyprus (163-116 BC), by a concubine. Apion's mother is often identified with Eirene, who was his mistress around 147 BC, but there is no evidence for this.

Ptolemy Apion was apparently given Cyrene as a separate kingdom ca. 105-101 BC. Nothing is recorded of Ptolemy's reign of Cyrenaica. Some scholars have doubted that he ever actually reigned.*

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Ptolemy died in 96 BC without heirs. In Ptolemy's will, he left Cyrenaica and his ancestral royal estates to the rule of the Roman Republic.

• Tacitus, Annals xiv. 14–65)

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Categories: Kings Of Cyrene, Ptolemaic Dynasty, 2nd-century Bc Births, 96 Bc Deaths, Year Of Birth Unknown, 2nd-century Bc Greek People, 1st-century Bc Greek People

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