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Magas of Cyrene ((ギリシア語:Μάγας ὁ Κυρηναῖος); born before 317 BC – 250 BC, ruled 276 BC – 250 BC) was a Greek Macedonian nobleman. Through his mother’s second marriage he was a member of the Ptolemaic dynasty. He became King of Cyrenaica (in modern Libya) and he managed to wrestle independence for Cyrenaica from the Greek Ptolemaic dynasty of Ancient Egypt. ==Family background and early life== Magas was the first-born son of the noblewoman Berenice and her first husband Philip.〔(Ptolemaic Genealogy: Berenice I )〕 He had two younger sisters: Antigone and Theoxena.〔(Ptolemaic Genealogy: Berenice I )〕 His father, Philip was the son of Amyntas by an unnamed mother.〔(Ancient Library article: Philippus no. 5 )〕 Plutarch (Pyrrhus 4.4) implies that his father was previously married and had children, including daughters born to him.〔(Ptolemaic Genealogy: Berenice I, Footnote 6 )〕 Phillip served as a military officer in the service of the Macedonian King Alexander the Great and was known for commanding one division of the Phalanx in Alexander’s wars.〔(Ancient Library article: Magas no.1 )〕 His mother Berenice was a noblewoman from Eordeaea.〔(Ptolemaic Genealogy: Berenice I )〕 She was the daughter of local obscure nobleman Magas and noblewoman Antigone.〔Heckel, ''Who’s who in the age of Alexander the Great: prosopography of Alexander’s empire'', p.71〕 Berenice’s mother was the niece of the powerful Regent Antipater〔Heckel, ''Who’s who in the age of Alexander the Great: prosopography of Alexander’s empire'', p.71〕 and was a distant collateral relative to the Argead dynasty.〔(Ptolemaic Dynasty - Affiliated Lines: The Antipatrids )〕 He was the namesake of his maternal grandfather. About 318 BC, his father died of natural causes. After the death of Magas’ father, Magas’ mother took him and his siblings to Egypt where they were a part of the entourage of his mother’s second maternal cousin Eurydice. Eurydice was then the wife of Ptolemy I Soter, the first Greek Pharaoh and founder of the Ptolemaic dynasty. By 317 BC, Ptolemy I fell in love with Berenice and divorced Eurydice to marry her. His mother, through her marriage to Ptolemy, was an Egyptian Queen and the Queen mother of the Ptolemaic dynasty.〔(Berenice I article at Livius.org )〕 Through his mother’s marriage to Ptolemy, Magas was a stepson to Ptolemy; he became an Egyptian Prince living in his stepfather’s court and was a member of the Ptolemaic dynasty. His mother bore Ptolemy three children: two daughters, Arsinoe II, Philotera and the future Pharaoh Ptolemy II Philadelphus.〔(Ptolemaic Genealogy: Berenice I )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Magas of Cyrene」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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