Antigone () was a

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noblewoman who lived in the 4th century BC. She was born to

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by a mother whose name is unknown. Antigone was the niece of the

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. Her father and paternal uncle were the sons of Iolaus and through her father Antigone was a distant collateral relative to the

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. Antigone was originally from either Paliura or

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. Little is known of her life. Antigone married a Macedonian nobleman of obscure origin called

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who was from Eordaea. Antigone and Magas lived in Eordaea and had a daughter called

Berenice I of Egypt Berenice I (; c. 340 BC – between 279 and 268 BC) was Queen of Egypt by marriage to Ptolemy I Soter. She became the second queen, after Eurydice of Egypt, Eurydice, of the Ptolemaic dynasty of Ancient Egypt, Egypt. Life Family Berenice was orig ...

.Heckel, ''Who’s who in the age of Alexander the Great: prosopography of Alexander’s empire'', p. 71

References

Sources

Berenice I article at Livius.org

* W. Heckel, Who's who in the age of Alexander the Great: prosopography of Alexander's empire, Wiley-Blackwell, 2006 4th-century BC Macedonians 4th-century BC Greek women Ancient Macedonian women Ptolemaic dynasty Antipatrid dynasty {{AncientGreece-royal-stub