Helenus of Cyrene
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Helenus of Cyrene
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Helenos was a Ptolemaic governor of Cyprus in the second century BC. He came from Cyrene and was the son of either a man called Apollonius or of Apollodorus the epistrategos of Thebais. Helenus joined the service of Ptolemy VIII while he was ruling as King in Cyrene between 163 and 145 BC and then followed him to Alexandria when he became king of Egypt. During Ptolemy's civil war with Cleopatra II, Helenus must have followed the king when he withdrew to Cyprus. There he worked with the governor
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Ptolemaic governor of Cyprus
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2023-07-29T13:17:48Z
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