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'''Ptolemy VI Philometor''' ([[Greek language |Greek]]: '''Πτολεμαίος Φιλομήτωρ''', c. [[191 BC|191]]-[[145 BC]]) was a king of Egypt from the [[Ptolemaic dynasty|Ptolemaic period]]. He reigned from [[180 BC|180]] to 145 BC.

Ptolemy succeeded in 180 at the age of about 12 and ruled jointly with his mother, [[Cleopatra I]], until her death in [[176 BC]]. The following year he married his sister, [[Cleopatra II]].

In [[170 BC]], [[Antiochus IV]] began the [[sixth Syrian War]] and invaded Egypt twice. He was crowned as its king in 168, but abandoned his claim on the orders of the Roman Senate. From [[169 BC|169]]-[[164 BC|164]] Egypt was ruled by a triumvirate consisting of Ptolemy, his sister-queen and his younger brother known as [[Ptolemy VIII Physcon]], but in 164 he was driven out by his brother and went to Rome to seek support, which he received from Cato. He was restored the following year by the intervention of the Alexandrians and ruled uneasily, cruelly suppressing frequent rebellions. In [[152 BC]] he briefly ruled jointly with one of his sons, known as Ptolemy Eupator, but it is thought that Ptolemy Eupator died that same year.

Ptolemy VI Philometer was killed in Syria, fighting against [[Alexander Balas]].

Ptolemy Philometor reigned for a short time with his son, [[Ptolemy Eupator]]. Eupator is only attested on monumental inscriptions, and when he was first discovered, there was a theory that he was an elder brother of Philometor, and reigned before him. As a result, some nineteenth century texts count Ptolemy Philometor as Ptolemy VII, and increase the numbers of all the later Ptolemies until "Ptolemy XVI [[Caesarion]]". The epithets, which have come down from antiquity, are unchanged.

==External links==
* [http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Africa/Egypt/_Texts/BEVHOP/9*.html Ptolemy Philometor at LacusCurtius] — (Chapter IX of E. R. Bevan's ''House of Ptolemy'', 1923)
* [http://www.tyndale.cam.ac.uk/Egypt/ptolemies/ptolemy_vi.htm Ptolemy VI] — (Egyptian Royal Genealogy)

{| align="center" cellpadding="2" border="2"
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| width="30%" align="center" | Preceded by: '''[[Ptolemy V Epiphanes|Ptolemy V]]''' and '''[[Cleopatra I of Egypt|Cleopatra I]]'''
| width="40%" align="center" | '''[[Ptolemaic dynasty|Ptolemaic King of Egypt]]''' ''First Reign'' ''with [[Cleopatra I of Egypt|Cleopatra I]], [[Cleopatra II of Egypt|Cleopatra II]], and [[Ptolemy VIII Physcon|Ptolemy VIII]]
| width="30%" align="center" | Succeeded by: '''[[Ptolemy VIII Physcon|Ptolemy VIII]]'''
|-
| width="30%" align="center" | Preceded by: '''[[Ptolemy VIII Physcon|Ptolemy VIII]]'''
| width="40%" align="center" | '''[[Ptolemaic dynasty|Ptolemaic King of Egypt]]''' ''Second Reign'' ''with [[Cleopatra I of Egypt|Cleopatra I]], [[Cleopatra II of Egypt|Cleopatra II]], [[Ptolemy VIII Physcon|Ptolemy VIII]], and [[Ptolemy VII Neos Philopator|Ptolemy VII]]''
| width="30%" align="center" | Succeeded by: '''[[Cleopatra II of Egypt|Cleopatra II]]''' and '''[[Ptolemy VII Neos Philopator|Ptolemy VII]]'''
|}

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[[Category:191 BC births]]
[[Category:145 BC deaths]]
[[Category:Pharaohs of the Ptolemaic dynasty|Ptolemy 06]]

Ptolemy VI Philometor - Revision history

Irlandos at 08:59, July 27, 2006