Jones, Prudence J. (2006). Cleopatra: A Sourcebook. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. стр. 14. ISBN9780806137414. „They were members of the Ptolemaic dynasty of Macedonian Greeks, who ruled Egypt after the death of its conqueror, Alexander the Great.”
Pomeroy, Sarah B. (1990). Women in Hellenistic Egypt. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. стр. 16. ISBN9780814322307. „while Ptolemaic Egypt was a monarchy with a Greek ruling class.”