he would become king. Demetrius agreed to his niece’s request and married her daughter. When Demetrius became king, there was no opposition in his rise to the throne, but he became ambitious to the point of recklessness. Sometime after Demetrius married his great niece, Apama and Demetrius became lovers. Berenice became jealous of her mother’s affair with her husband. She argued with both her mother and her husband and led a coup against Demetrius who died in Apama’s arms. The poem Coma Berenices by Greek poet Callimachus (lost, but known in a Latin translation or paraphrase by Catullus), apparently refers to her supporters killing of Demetrius: "Let me remind you how stout-hearted you were even as a young girl: have you forgotten the brave deed by which you gained a royal marriage?" After the death of Demetrius, Cyrenaica became a part of the Ptolemaic Empire. Berenice II left Cyrenaica and travelled to Egypt where she married her cousin Ptolemy III and through her marriage became Queen of Egypt. Apama's ultimate fate is unknown. It is possible she travelled with Berenice II to Alexandria, where eventually she settled with her daughter and her family. References Sources Heckel W., Who’s who in the age of Alexander the Great: prosopography of Alexander’s empire, Wiley-Blackwell, 2006 https://www.livius.org/ap-ark/apame/apame_ii.html http://www.virtualreligion.net/iho/antigonus_3.html https://www.livius.org/be-bm/berenice/berenice_ii.html http://www.tyndalehouse.com/egypt/ptolemies/berenice_i_fr.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20110716100103/http://www.tyndalehouse.com/egypt/ptolemies/apama-arsinoe_fr.htm 3rd-century BC women 3rd-century BC Greek people Seleucid princesses Queens consort of the Ptolemaic dynasty Cyrenean Greeks