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	Ptolemy I Soter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Ptolemy was one of Alexander the Great's most trusted generals, and among the seven "body-guards" attached to his person.
		In 312, Ptolemy and Seleucus, the fugitive satrap of Babylonia, both invaded Syria, and defeated Demetrius Poliorcetes ("sieger of cities"), the son of Antigonus, in the Battle of Gaza.
		Ptolemy I Soter died in 283 at the age of 84.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ptolemy_I_of_Egypt (1262 words)

	PTOLEMY - LoveToKnow Article on PTOLEMY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Ptolemy now takes up this question for the planets; he says that this perfection is of the essence of celestial things, which admit of neither disorder nor inequality, that this planetary theory is one of extreme difficulty, and that no one had yet completely succeeded in it.
		Ptolemy concludes his great work by saying that he has included in it everything of practical utility which in his judgment should find a place in a treatise on astronomy at the time it was written, with relation as well to discoveries as to methods.
		Ptolemy especially devoted himself to the mathematical branch of his subject, and the arrangement of his work, in which his rcsults are presented in a tabular form, instead of being at once embodied in a map, was undoubtedly designed to enable the student to construct his maps for himself.
	9.1911encyclopedia.org /P/PT/PTOLEMY.htm (12441 words)

	Ptolemy II Philadelphus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ptolemy II Philadelphus (309-246 BC), was the pharaoh of Egypt from 281 BC to 246 BC.
		Ptolemy's first wife, Arsinoë I, daughter of Lysimachus, was the mother of his legitimate children.
		Ptolemy himself was eager to increase the library and to patronize scientific research.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ptolemy_II_of_Egypt (514 words)

	Ptolemy II of Egypt -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Ptolemy II Philadelphus ((Click link for more info and facts about 309) 309-246 BC), was of a delicate constitution, no (The ancient kingdom of Philip II and Alexander the Great in the southeastern Balkans that is now divided among modern Macedonia and Greece and Bulgaria) Macedonian warrior-chief of the old style.
		Ptolemy II maintained a splendid court in (The chief port of Egypt; located on the western edge of the Nile delta on the Mediterranean Sea; founded by Alexander the Great; the capital of ancient Egypt) Alexandria.
		Ptolemy's first wife, Arsinoë I, daughter of (Macedonian general under Alexander the Great; with Seleucus he defeated Antigonus and Demetrius at the battle of Ipsus (circa 355-281 BC)) Lysimachus, was the mother of his legitimate children.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pt/ptolemy_ii_of_egypt1.htm (439 words)

	(55) Egypt, Ptolemy II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Ptolemy II established his family's ruler cult by marrying his sister, Arsinoe II, and deifying himself and members of his family.
		He established dynastic continuity on his coins by retaining the types of Ptolemy I, so that it is often difficult to date the coins to one reign or the other.
		It still has the prominent chin and bulging forehead of the coins of Ptolemy I, but the nose is less hooked and the age of the king harder to determine (see no. 54).
	www.lawrence.edu /dept/art/buerger/catalogue/055.html (177 words)

	Ptolemy, II Biography / Biography of Ptolemy, II Biography Biography
		Ptolemy II (308-246 B.C.) was a king of Egypt, the second and greatest of the Lagid dynasty of Macedonian kings who ruled Egypt between 323 and 30 B.C. He was later known by the epithet Philadelphus, "Brother-loving," which he shared with his wife Arsinoë.
		Ptolemy inherited Palestine and resisted the attempts of Antiochus I, the Seleucid king of Syria, to wrest it from him.
		Ptolemy's ships controlled the eastern Mediterranean, and he was master of Cyprus, the Phoenician coast, and part of northern Syria, while his second marriage brought him possessions in the Aegean.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-ptolemy-ii/index.html (525 words)

	139
		Ptolemy, then, is alone among the kings in acceding to this element of the Magnesians' request, and he, unlike the other rulers, had no territorial interest in the area (cf.
		Ptolemy III Euergetes ("Benefactor") and Berenike, daughter of Magas of Cyrene.
		This letter of the sovereigns (Ptolemy VIII Euergetes II and his queens) to the royal administration orders the latter to secure to the temples of the royal cult their proper revenues, which the priests had (in a letter of which the contents are summarized in the royal decree) complained were being infringed in various ways.
	www.columbia.edu /itc/classics/bagnall/3995/readings/b-d2-9.htm (6152 words)

	Justin: Epitome of the Philippic History of Pompeius Trogus, Book 24 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		But the crimes of Ptolemy were not unpunished; for soon after (the immortal gods inflicting vengeance on him for so many perjuries, and such cruel murders), he was driven from his throne and taken prisoner by the Gauls, and lost his life, as he had merited, by the sword.
		Ptolemy alone, the king of Macedonia, heard of the approach of the Gauls without alarm, and, hurried on by the madness that distracted him for his unnatural crimes, went out to meet them with a few undisciplined troops, as if wars could be dispatched with as little difficulty as murders.
		Ptolemy, after receiving several wounds, was taken, and his head, cut off and stuck on a lance, was carried round the whole army to strike terror into the enemy.
	www.forumromanum.org /literature/justin/english/trans24.html (2057 words)

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		Part of the agreement between Ptolemy II and Antiochus II that ended the Second Syrian War (259-253) was the marriage of the latter to Ptolemy's daughter Berenike, thus displacing Antiochus' first queen, Laodike, and preparing the dynastic rivalry in the Seleucid house that erupted into the Third Syrian War on the death of Antiochus.
		Ptolemy accompanied his daughter as far as Pelusium, the eastern edge of Egypt, and the dioiketes Apollonios escorted her, with an undoubtedly large retinue and her enormous dowry, as far as the Syrian border between Ptolemaic and Seleucid possessions.
		Ptolemy reports that Berenike had, while one of Ptolemy's officers was conquering some Seleucid city, given orders for some 1500 talents of silver in Soloi to be captured and brought to Seleukia, which they succeeded in doing, with the help of the people of Soloi.
	www.columbia.edu /itc/classics/bagnall/3995/readings/b-d2-1c.htm (5849 words)

	(56) Egypt, Ptolemy II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Ptolemy II Philadelphos (Brother-lover) succeeded his father, Ptolemy I, and after their deaths deified his father and his mother, Berenike I. In depicting himself and his sister-queen, Arsinoe, on the obverse and his deified parents on the reverse of this octodrachm and on his tetradrachms, he emphasized family resemblance and dynastic continuity.
		Arsinoe II had been married to Lysimachos of Thrace (see no. 45) and her half-brother, Ptolemy Keraunos, before her marriage to Ptolemy II.
		It was her son rather than Ptolemy's first-born son by his previous marriage who succeeded to the throne, and after her death she received her own temple at Alexandria, near the temple where she and Ptolemy were worshipped together as Savior gods.
	www.lawrence.edu /dept/art/buerger/catalogue/056.html (333 words)

	Stratonice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Ptolemy II The fact that Stratonice is mentioned in SEG 18.636 suggested to Moretti that she was of very high status, since, contra Fraser,
		It is not clear a priori whether the Arsinoe of the dedication, daughter of king Ptolemy and queen Berenice, is Arsinoe II or Arsinoe III.
		Close relations between the Egyptian and Macedonian courts during the reign of Ptolemy IV are attested by the unrealised plans to engage Ptolemy V to a daughter of Philip V.
	www.tyndale.cam.ac.uk /Egypt/ptolemies/stratonice.htm (883 words)

	Arsinoe I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Ptolemy IX While only Ptolemy II was called king Ptolemy son of king Ptolemy in Greek or Egyptian inscriptions, A. Honeyman,
		As Teixidor notes, this must refer to Ptolemy II before his settlement with Ptolemy Ceraunus, who challenged his legitimacy, and hence the wife referred to must be Arsinoe I. The key phrase has also caused difficulties.
		Honeyman translated it as "the legitimate scion and his wives", and argued this as an additional proof that the inscription dated to Ptolemy II, since later kings were monogamous; also, therefore, as proof that Arsinoe II married Ptolemy II in or before 278/7.
	www.tyndale.cam.ac.uk /Egypt/ptolemies/arsinoe_i.htm (1226 words)

	Justin: Epitome of the Philippic History of Pompeius Trogus, Book 39 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		—Ptolemy Alexander driven from Egypt; Lathyrus recalled; Ptolemy Apion, king of Cyrene, bequeaths his dominions to the Romans; desolation of Egypt and Syria, V.
		Ptolemy, in consequence, effecting a reconciliation with his sister, prepared, with his utmost efforts, to overthrow that power, which,.
		Ptolemy spread a report that this youth, to whom he gave the name of Alexander, and who is called Zebennas by Josephus, xiii.
	www.forumromanum.org /literature/justin/english/trans39.html (1373 words)

	Berenike
		Berenike was founded by Ptolemy II Philadelphus in the mid-third century BC as a place of commerce with Africa and Arabia and as a port for receiving elephants from Africa that were to be trained and used in war against the Indian elephants in the Seleucid army.
		Ptolemy II built temples, held festivals, and founded Berenike in his mother's name, putting her on a list of deified royalties next to Alexander the Great and Ptolemy I. A temple, which was the primary focus of research at the site until now, was erected in Berenike to the god Serapis.
		She, being the only Ptolemy to become fluent in the Egyptian language (as well as many others-including the language of the Trogodytes, the indigenous people of the Red Sea coast near Berenike), was actually a "symbol of resistance to Rome and the promise of deliverance from her yoke" (Bell 63).
	www.ling.upenn.edu /~jason2/papers/bnikeppr.htm (6341 words)

	Ptolemy II
		Here the point is whether the co-regency between Ptolemy I and II was in fact an abdication of Ptolemy I, or a joint rule of two kings.
		As to a reasoning concerning the Elephantine papyri, reporting a 41st year, that papyri would show that the joint rule was not an abdication, but that counting by the years of Ptolemy I till his death, or at any case one year after the beginninng of the co-regency with Ptolemy II, was a possibility.
		So the death of Ptolemy I was minimum 39 years after June -322 plus a certain time, which means that he died after June -283, this date functioning as a TPQ.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/cplawassist/paper/1500102.html (915 words)

	Ptolemy II
		23 suggests that he won a victory in the same Olympics that Arsinoe II won a triple victory, but this is impossible since her victories were all in chariot races, as was his.
		He also suggests that AB 88 implies that Ptolemy I, Berenice I and Ptolemy II all won victories in the same Olympics as rulers, which would only be possible in the Olympics of 284.
		The association with Arsinoe II as his living wife ensures that the king named in the stele is Ptolemy II.
	www.geocities.com /christopherjbennett/ptolemies/ptolemy_ii.htm (1515 words)

	Alexandrian Scholarship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This is very similar to the layout of the Serapeum, which was begun by Ptolemy II Philadelphus and completed by his son.
		While Demetrius was a convert of Serapis[16] and thus probably an official of the new Greco-Egyptian cult invented by Ptolemy, the Serapeum was not yet built at his death and he is remembered neither as librarian of that institution nor at the Museum.
		[26] 300 years later Ptolemy (no known relation to royalty, see biography) worked out mathematically his elegant system of epicycles to support the geocentric, Aristotelian view,[27] and wrote a treatise on astrology, both of which were to become the medieval paradigm.
	www.perseus.tufts.edu /GreekScience/Students/Ellen/Museum.html (2813 words)

	A Framework for Distributed Modeling and Execution with Ptolemy II - Thomas Huining Feng
		Actors within Ptolemy are not allowed to establish connections without doing this via a gateway, which finally has the right to filter all sorts of dangerous connections and messages.
		On the one hand, one would like the gateway to provide a rich API to Ptolemy; on the otherhand, the design of the gateway must be concise so that even a user with 256M memory or less is willing to run it as an extra process in the background.
		When one of the Ptolemy instances within the model malfunctions (deadlock, hacked, disconnected unexpectedly, hardware error,...), it is effectively removed from the lookup service, and well-isolated from then on.
	www.eecs.berkeley.edu /~tfeng/ee290proposal.html (1024 words)

	Ptolemy II Philadelphus
		Ptolemaic King of Egypt with Ptolemy I, Berenice I, Arsinoe I, and Arsinoe II
		His brother Ptolemy Ceraunus found compensation by becoming king in Macedonia in 281 BC, and perished in the Gallic invasion of 280-79 (see Brennus).
		Ptolemy II Ptolemy Philadelphus at LacusCurtius (http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Africa/Egypt/_Texts/BEVHOP/3.html) — (Chapter III of E. R Bevan's House of Ptolemy*, 1923)
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Bios/PtolemyIIPhiladelphus.html (517 words)

	Ptolemy-II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		When Ptolemy II died, Antiochus divorced Berenice and returned to his first wife.
		Zenon Payri: An archive of 1200+ papyri belonging to the scribe Zeno who was in the court of Ptolemy II.
		The Letter of Aristeas (a pseudepigraphical work from the second century B.C.) has Ptolemy II commissioning the Jewish high priest Eleazer to have the Jewish law translated into Greek and put in the Alexandrian library.
	www.dabar.org /McCabe/Ptolemy-II.html (389 words)

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		It has been conjectured that Ptolemy and Theocritus were fellow pupils, and that the poet may have hoped to obtain court favour at Alexandria from this early connection.
		Ptolemy held lands also in Phoenicia, and Arabia; he claimed Syria and Libya and Aethiopia; he was lord of the distant Pamphylians, of the Cilicians, the Lycians and the Carians, and the Cyclades owned his mastery.
		IDYL II Simaetha, madly in love with Delphis, who has forsaken her, endeavours to subdue him to her by magic, and by invoking the Moon, in her character of Hecate, and of Selene.
	www.gutenberg.net /etext03/thbm10.txt (22085 words)

	Lysimachus son of Ptolemy II
		However, Ptolemy III and Berenice II were not joint rulers, since Berenice is not normally reflected in the dating formulae.
		Although it has been argued that the title could be as early as the reign of Ptolemy II (Amphiomis (PP VIII 210a, strategos in Mendes) the certainly datable examples are much later.
		But Cleopatra II is otherwise unattested during this period, so it is unlikely that Lysimachus can be dated to this time.
	www.geocities.com /christopherjbennett/ptolemies/lysimachus_i.htm (1237 words)

	Text Version
		Ptolemy II Philadelphos (293-246 B.C.), the son and successor of Ptolemy I Soter, transported the body of Alexander from Memphis to Alexandria, the capital of his kingdom.
		Already in the early third century B.C. Ptolemy I Soter spread rumours, according to which he himself was not the son of Lagos, but the illegitimate son of Philip II and therefore Alexander's half-brother and legal successor.
		It was king Ptolemy IX (116-107, 87-81 B.C.), one of the worst successors of Ptolemy I, who replaced Alexander's sarcophagus with a glass one, and who melted the original down in order to strike emergency gold issues of his coinage.
	www.greece.org /alexandria/alexander/Pages/atext.html (3138 words)

	Additional Reading (from Ptolemy II Philadelphus) -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy) was an eminent astronomer, mathematician, and geographer who lived in the 2nd century AD.
		Ptolemy published his astronomical data in an encyclopedic volume known as Almagest.
		The greatest of the Renaissance popes was Julius II.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-5971?tocId=5971 (724 words)

	Justin, Epitome of Pompeius Trogus (1886/2003). Prologi.
		The war waged in Macedonia by Ptolemy Ceraunus against Monunius the Illyrian and Ptolemy son of Lysimachus; and how Ptolemy stripped his sister Arsinoe of her rule over the cities of Macedonia and of how he himself lost his life in a clash with Belgius, leader of the Gauls.
		Seleucus' war in Syria against Ptolemy Trypho: likewise in Asia against his own brother, Antiochus Hierax, a war in which he was defeated by the Gauls at Ancyra; after they [the Gauls] were defeated at Pergamum by Attalus, they killed Zielas of Bithynia.
		How, on the death of Ptolemy Tryphon, his son Philopator defeated King Antiochus at Raphia, and how Philopator himself died from his desperate love for Agathoclea, leaving a son who was still a minor, against whom Antiochus conspired with Philip, king of Macedon.
	www.tertullian.org /fathers/justinus_08_prologi.htm (4110 words)

	MSN Encarta - Multimedia - Ptolemy II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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		Ptolemy II Ptolemy II, king of Egypt, was also known as Ptolemy Philadelphus.
		Library (institution); Ptolemy II Exclusively for MSN Encarta Premium Subscribers.
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	Ptolemy II
		He consolidated Greek control and administration, constructing a canal from the Red Sea to the Nile as well as the museum, library, and the Pharos (lighthouse) at Alexandria, one of the Seven Wonders of the World.
		He was the son of Ptolemy I, © Research Machines plc 2005.
		The flag was introduced by Hassan II, the Bey of Tunisia.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0037801.html (121 words)

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