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Youngest son of Antony and Cleopatra

Ptolemy Philadelphus

Ptolemy Philadelphus

Dynastic role
Youngest son of Antony and Cleopatra
Life
36 BCE – after 29 BCE
Archive group
Heirs and princes

Ptolemy Philadelphus was the youngest child of Mark Antony and Cleopatra VII. He appeared in the Donations of Alexandria and was later brought to Rome after Octavian conquered Egypt.

The youngest child

Ptolemy Philadelphus was Antony and Cleopatra’s youngest child. In 34 BCE the Donations of Alexandria associated him with Syria, Phoenicia, and Cilicia as part of his parents’ eastern dynastic settlement.

After Alexandria

He was taken to Rome and entrusted to Octavia Minor after the deaths of his parents. Like Alexander Helios, he then disappears from the surviving record; a precise death date cannot be established.

Historical sources

Plutarch, Life of Antony 54; 87
The Donations of Alexandria and the children in Octavia’s care.

Cassius Dio, Roman History 49.41; 51.21
The eastern titles and the triumphal aftermath.

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