Alexander (younger son of Cleopatra)

Also known as: Alexander · Family: Egyptian · Role: king of Egypt · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 9

Alexander, Cleopatra’s younger son, was favored by her because she thought he would be more obsequious than Philometor, whom she had previously helped banish to Cyprus. When the Alexandrians rejected Philometor and he escaped by ship, they made Alexander king on his return from Cyprus.

Eventually, Alexander slew Cleopatra, who had helped place him on the Egyptian throne.

Relationship record

Life events

• Alexander became king of Egypt after the Alexandrians rejected Philometor.(Book 1 · Chapter 9 · 📍 Egypt)
  • “the Alexandrians were eager to kill Philometor, but, as he got on shipboard and escaped them, they made Alexander king on his return from Cyprus.”
• Cleopatra was slain by Alexander, whom she had helped place on the Egyptian throne.(Book 1 · Chapter 9 · 📍 Egypt)
  • With: Cleopatra (mother of Philometor)
  • “But Cleopatra was punished eventually for her getting Philometor banished by being slain by Alexander, whom she had got appointed king over the Egyptians.”

Book 1 · Chapter 9

• parent: Cleopatra (mother of Philometor) “she thought Alexander, the younger of her sons, would be more obsequious to her”
• siblings with Philometor “for though he was the eldest of her sons she would not allow them to call him to the kingdom, but got him banished to Cyprus by his father previously. Now of this dislike of Cleopatra to her son they allege other motives, but especially this one, that she thought Alexander, the younger of her sons, would be more obsequious to her.”
• with Cleopatra (mother of Philometor) (Alexander killed Cleopatra.) “But Cleopatra was punished eventually for her getting Philometor banished by being slain by Alexander, whom she had got appointed king over the Egyptians.”
• rivals with Philometor (They were competing for the Egyptian kingship.) “And therefore she urged the Egyptians to choose Alexander for their king. And when the people opposed her in this, she sent Alexander to Cyprus, nominally as general, but really because she wished through him to make herself more formidable to Philometor”
• with Cleopatra (mother of Philometor) (Alexander killed Cleopatra.) “But Cleopatra was punished eventually for her getting Philometor banished by being slain by Alexander, whom she had got appointed king over the Egyptians”

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.