Ancestors of Prusias Monodous, Version B
(compare with Version A)

Showing Apama III as daughter of Demetrius II
of Macedonia and Phthia, as favored in:
Oleg L. Gabelko and Yuri N. Kuzmin, “Matrimonial Policy of Demetrios II of Macedonia,” Вестник древней истории / Vestnik drevnej istorii / Bulletin of Ancient History 1 (2008), pp. 141-164;

Showing Philip V as son of Demetrius II
of Macedonia and Phthia, as favored in:
S. le Bohec, “Phthia, mere de Philippe V,” Rev. Ét. Gr. 94 (1981), pp. 34-46;
The Cambridge Ancient History, 2nd ed., vol.7, pt. 1: The Hellenistic world (1984), p. 487;
Peter Green, Alexander to Actium (1990), p. 733;
Christian Settipani, Nos ancêtres de l’Antiquité: Etudes des possibilités de liens généalogiques entre les familles de l’Antiquité et celles du haut Moyen-Age européen (1991), pp. 103-105;
Joseph B. Scholten, The Politics of Plunder (2000), pp. 269-270;
Oleg L. Gabelko and Yuri N. Kuzmin, “Matrimonial Policy of Demetrios II of Macedonia,” Вестник древней истории / Vestnik drevnej istorii / Bulletin of Ancient History 1 (2008), pp. 141-164;
I.A. Ladynin, O.L. Gabelko, and N. Kuzmin, “A New Concept of the Hellenistic Dynastic History? Thoughts about the book of D. Ogden,” Античный мир и археология / The Ancient World and Archaeology 13 (2009), pp. 120-148;
Yuri N. Kuzmin and Oleg L. Gabelko, "Notes on the Matrimonial Policy of the Antigonids in 250–220s B.C.," Проблемы истории, филологии, культуры / Problemy istorii, filologii, kulʹtury / Journal of Historical, Philological and Cultural Studies 35 (2012), no. 1, pp. 27-42 (in press).

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.

The two men shown here in red each had the hereditary genetic mutation that can lead to gemination or teeth fusion, specifically, as reported in their cases, a single curved bone in the upper jaw rather than individual teeth, though this bone had indentations where most people have separation between adjacent teeth; see details in Gabelko and Kuzmin's 2008 article, which points out that the fusion could have been limited to the upper front teeth which are visible to other people in everyday conversation.

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
Phthia Alexander II of Epirus Pyrrhus II of Epirus
Lanassa of Syracuse
Olympias Pyrrhus II of Epirus
Antigone
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
Phthia Alexander II of Epirus Pyrrhus II of Epirus
Lanassa of Syracuse
Olympias Pyrrhus II of Epirus
Antigone
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Prepared by Don Stone, March 2012