About Glaphyra, Dio Cassius states that she was a courtisan, (DIO, Historiae Romanae , 49.32.3-4), and Archelaus her son. Appian on the other hand writes, (APPIAN, de Bello Civile, 5.4.7), that Sisines, <Σισίνης>, was her son and nothing about her marriage with Alexander, son of Herodes the Great. There is a confusion and nobody really knows what happened...

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