ABSTRACT
During the winter 193-192 the marriage between Ptolemy Epiphanes and one of the daughters of Antiochus was celebrated at Raphia on what was now the frontier of the Seleucid realm. Although by language, education, and manners, Cleopatra was, of course, Macedonian and Greek, she was not of pure Macedonian blood. In the agreement between Antiochus and Ptolemy sealed by the marriage a great deal had obviously turned on the question what dowry Cleopatra was to bring to Egypt. Of the history of Egypt during the remainder of the reign of Ptolemy Epiphanes hardly anything is known. The great question in foreign policy before the Alexandrine court during the years which followed the marriage was the attitude to be taken in the struggle between Antiochus and Rome. Perhaps if Ptolemy Epiphanes had lived longer he would have led an army to recover Ccele-Syria from the Seleucid.
