Eurydice of Egypt
Eurydice ( † after 287 BC) was the daughter of the Macedonian politician and military commander Antipater and second wife of the satraps and later King Ptolemy I of Egypt.
Life
After the death of Alexander the Great, Antipater was one of the most powerful Diadochi and married his daughter Eurydice - probably after the conference of Triparadeisos - around 320 BC with Ptolemy I, the satrap of Egypt.
From the marriage of Eurydice and Ptolemy I. The following children were born:
- Keraunos Ptolemy, king of Macedonia
- Meleager, King of Macedonia
- Executed a son of unknown name, of Ptolemy II
- Lysandra, the wife of Agathocles, son of Lysimachus
- Ptolemais, wife of Demetrios Poliorketes
Eurydice's entourage belonged to her niece Berenice, a widow from Macedonia, the BC 's mistress and finally as the third wife Berenike I. Ptolemy I was for about 317. Berenike to displace Eurydice not only from the side of her husband, but also their eldest son Ptolemy Keraunos from the succession succeeded.
Well shortly before 287 BC, only about 30 years after Ptolemy I. Berenike had turned, leaving Eurydice Egypt, perhaps along with her eldest son. 287 BC, it is detectable in Miletus, where her daughter Ptolemais then married the Diadochi Demetrios Poliorketes before his last campaign. Your date of death is not known.