CLEOPATRA IV

(d. 113 BC)

   Daughter of Ptolemy VIII and Cleopatra III. Consort of her brother, Ptolemy IX, who was forced to divorce her by their mother around 116 BC. Cleopatra IV fled to Cyprus and then Syria, where she married the Seleucid king Antiochus IX Cyzicenus. She was in Antioch in 113 BC when it fell to his rival, Antiochus VIII Grypus, whose wife, her sister Cleopatra VI Tryphaena, ordered her execution.