For other uses of this name see, Apama (disambiguation)

Apama (disambiguation)

-Nature:* Apama, a synonym of the flowering plant genus Thottea* Sepia apama, a species of the Australian Giant Cuttlefish* For the tree in South America, see Tabebuia rosea* The Food plant Apama tomentosa, see Atrophaneura coon-People:...

Apame IV, sometimes known as Apama IV was a Macedon

Macedon

Macedonia or Macedon was an ancient kingdom, centered in the northeastern part of the Greek peninsula, bordered by Epirus to the west, Paeonia to the north, the region of Thrace to the east and Thessaly to the south....

ian princess from the Antigonid dynasty

Antigonid dynasty

The Antigonid dynasty was a dynasty of Hellenistic kings descended from Alexander the Great's general Antigonus I Monophthalmus .-History:...

. Her father was Philip V

Philip V of Macedon

Philip V was King of Macedon from 221 BC to 179 BC. Philip's reign was principally marked by an unsuccessful struggle with the emerging power of Rome. Philip was attractive and charismatic as a young man...

, King from 221 BC to 179 BC, her mother was his first wife the daughter of Prusias I Cholus and Apama III, and her half-brother was Perseus

Perseus of Macedon

Perseus was the last king of the Antigonid dynasty, who ruled the successor state in Macedon created upon the death of Alexander the Great...

, King from 179 BC to 167 BC. She was the wife of her uncle and half-cousin King Prusias II Cynegus

Prusias II of Bithynia

Prusias II Cynegus was the king of Bithynia. He was the son and successor of Prusias I and Apama III....

 of Bithynia

Bithynia

Bithynia was an ancient region, kingdom and Roman province in the northwest of Asia Minor, adjoining the Propontis, the Thracian Bosporus and the Euxine .-Description:...

, and mother of his successor, Nicomedes II Epiphanes and another Apama, born c. 175 BC, wife of Prince Dyegilos of Thrace

Thrace

Thrace is a historical and geographic area in southeast Europe. As a geographical concept, Thrace designates a region bounded by the Balkan Mountains on the north, Rhodope Mountains and the Aegean Sea on the south, and by the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara on the east...

, born c. 180 BC. Her husband was her half-cousin because her aunt Apama III

Apama III

For other uses of this name see, Apama Apama III, sometimes known as Apame III was a Greek Princess from the Antigonid dynasty....

, was the wife of Prusias I Cholus

Prusias I of Bithynia

Prusias I Cholus was a king of Bithynia...

and thus her husband's mother.