Ancestors of Prusias Monodous, Version A

Ancestors of Prusias Monodous, Version A
Compare with Version B.

Showing Apama III as daughter of Demetrius II
of Macedonia and Stratonice II, as favored in:

The Cambridge Ancient History, 2nd ed., vol.7, pt. 1: The Hellenistic world (1984), p. 487;

Peter Green, Alexander to Actium (1990), p. 733;

Showing Philip V as son of Demetrius II
of Macedonia and Chryseis, as favored in:

S. Dow and C. F. Edson, “Chryseis. A Study of the Evidence in Regard to the Mother of Philip V,” Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 48 (1937), pp. 127-80, esp. 149-56;

R. M. Errington, A History of Macedonia (1990), p. 174;

Daniel Ogden, Polygamy, Prostitutes and Death (1999), p. 179;

Daniel Ogden, “How to Marry A Courtesan” in Creating a Hellenistic World (2010), pp. 232-4;

R. Lane Fox, “'Glorious Servitude...': The Reigns of Antigonos Gonatas and Demetrios II” in Brill's Companion to Ancient Macedon (2011), p. 518.

Showing Prusias Monodous as son of Prusias II
and his first wife, Apama of Macedonia.

This assumption makes Prusias Monodous a full brother of Nicomedes [II].

This assumption is plausible if we also assume that Monodous died before Prusias II ordered the murder of his son Nicomedes [II]. (William Smith's 19th century Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology says of Monodous, "He probably died early, as nothing more is known of him.") If Monodous was a son of Prusias II's first wife Apama of Macedonia and was still living when Prusias II ordered the murder of his son Nicomedes, then Justin 34.4 wouldn't make sense (because Monodous would benefit from this murder, not the children of the second marriage):
About the same time, Prusias, king of Bithynia, conceived a resolution to kill his son Nicomedes, with a desire to benefit his younger children by a second marriage, whom [Nicomedes] he had sent to Rome.

Prusias Monodous (One-toothed)	Prusias II Cynegus (Hunter) of Bithynia m. (1) Apama IV of Macedonia (after the 179 death of Philip V and accession of Perseus); m. (2) ________ (after defeat of Perseus in 168?).	Prusias I of Bithynia	Ziaelas (or Zeilas) of Bithynia	Nicomedes I of Bithynia	Zipoetes I of Bithynia

				Ditizili (or Ditizele) of Phrygia





		Apama III	Demetrius II of Macedonia	Antigonus II Gonatus of Macedonia	Demetrius I Poliorcetes of Macedonia
					Phila I
				Phila II	Seleucus I of Syria
					Stratonice I
			Stratonice II	Antiochus I of Syria	Seleucus I of Syria
					Apama I
				Stratonice I	Demetrius I Poliorcetes of Macedonia
					Phila I
	Apama IV	Philip V of Macedonia	Demetrius II of Macedonia	Antigonus II Gonatus of Macedonia	Demetrius I Poliorcetes of Macedonia
					Phila I
				Phila II	Seleucus I of Syria
					Stratonice I
			Chryseis (a Thessalian war-captive, says Porphyry)



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Prepared by Don Stone, March 2012