Demetrius the Fair

Demetrius the Fair ( Greek Δημήτριος ὁ Καλός; † 249/248 BC) was a king of Cyrene.

Demetrios was a son of Demetrius Poliorketes and Ptolemais, daughter of Ptolemy I of Egypt. His older half-brother Antigonus Gonatas was. His first wife was Olympias, daughter of Polykleitos of Larissa, and Antigonus Doson as probably Echecrates (father of Antigonus ) were their common sons.

After the death of Magas, around 250 BC, was the reunification of Cyrene before the Ptolemäerrreich. For a reunion but was opposed Apame, the daughter of Magas of Seleukidenkönigs Antiochus I. widow and, as this would zunichtegemacht the purpose of their own marriage. She broke off the engagement of their daughter Berenice with Ptolemy III. and called Demetrios bring the beauty and offered him her daughter's hand. Demetrios arrived and was able with the help of the party who wanted to continue the policy and form of government in recent decades, not only the city of Cyrene, but also the corresponding Libyan territory to get into the hand (250 BC).

Berenike but took the reset not go there, put himself at the head of an opposition group and let Demetrios in the bedroom of his future mother in law, where they had caught him, kill.