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At Ptolemy II's birth, his older half-brother Ptolemy Keraunos was the heir presumptive. As Ptolemy II grew older a struggle for the succession developed between them, which culminated in Ptolemy Keraunos' departure from Egypt around 287 BC. On 28 March 284 BC, Ptolemy I had Ptolemy II declared king, formally elevating him to the status of co ...
Ptolemy II was a prince of Thessalian and Macedonian ancestry.He was the son and successor born to Lysimachus of Telmessos by an unnamed woman. [9] [10] He had a paternal uncle called Epigonos of Telmessos; [11] [12] had a paternal first cousin called Antipater Epigonos [13] [14] and likely he had a paternal second cousin called Epigonos.
At its apex under Ptolemy II, the Ptolemaic navy may have had as many as 336 warships, [81] with Ptolemy II reportedly having at his disposal more than 4,000 ships (including transports and allied vessels). [81] Maintaining a fleet of this size would have been costly, and reflected the vast wealth and resources of the kingdom. [81]
Ptolemy I and other early rulers of the dynasty were not married to their relatives, the childless marriage of siblings Ptolemy II and Arsinoe II [22] being an exception. The first child-producing incestuous marriage in the Ptolemaic dynasty was that of Ptolemy IV and Arsinoe III , who were succeeded as co-pharaohs by their son Ptolemy V , born ...
The Lighthouse of Alexandria, sometimes called the Pharos of Alexandria [a], was a lighthouse built by the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Ancient Egypt, during the reign of Ptolemy II Philadelphus (280–247 BC). [2] It has been estimated to have been at least 100 metres (330 ft) in overall height. [3]
The numbering of the Ptolemaic kings, like any Hellenistic monarchs, is a modern scholarly convention; at most, ancient sources informally distinguished between like-named kings by their epithets or nicknames, and sometimes numbered those if they repeated: thus, our Ptolemy VIII Euergetes is "[Ptolemy] Euergetes II" in the Canon of Ptolemy. [97]
Muse statue, a common scholarly motif in the Hellenistic age.. The Mouseion of Alexandria (Ancient Greek: Μουσεῖον τῆς Ἀλεξανδρείας; Latin: Musaeum Alexandrinum), which arguably included the Library of Alexandria, [1] was an institution said to have been founded by Ptolemy I Soter and his son Ptolemy II Philadelphus. [2]
Ptolemy XII Neos Dionysus (Ancient Greek: Πτολεμαῖος Νέος Διόνυσος, romanized: Ptolemaios Neos Dionysos, lit. 'Ptolemy the new Dionysus' c. 117 – 51 BC) [a] [1] [2] was a king of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt who ruled from 80 to 58 BC and then