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Who was Eurydice, the wife of Ptolemy I Soter?
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Ptolemy I Soter
Ptolemy I Soter, portrait on a silver tetradrachm; in the British Museum
Eurydice was a queen of Ptolemy I Soter and his second wife. She was the daughter of Antipater, a powerful regent of Macedonia, and her marriage to Ptolemy was part of a political agreement between the two men.1
While Eurydice was the mother of children by Ptolemy, her influence was eventually eclipsed by Berenice I, who arrived in Egypt in Eurydice's retinue. Ptolemy eventually made Berenice his queen, and their son, Ptolemy II Philadelphus, was appointed as co-regent and successor, effectively bypassing the children of Eurydice.12