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	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)

	Ptolemaic Dynasty - Ptolemy I - XV
		Ptolemy IV Philopator was the fourth ruler of the Ptolemaic Dynasty.
		Ptolemy VI Philometor was the sixth ruler of the Ptolemaic Dynasty.
		Ptolemy VII Neos Philopator was the seventh ruler of the Ptolemaic Dynasty.
	www.crystalinks.com /ptolemaic.html (1794 words)

	Ptolemaic dynasty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ptolemy VI Philometor (180 BC-164 BC, 163 BC-145 BC) married Cleopatra II, briefly ruled jointly with Ptolemy Eupator in 152 BC
		Ptolemy VIII (170 BC-163 BC, 145 BC-116 BC) Euergetes II (Physcon) married Cleopatra II then Cleopatra III; temporarily expelled from Alexandria by Cleopatra II between 131 BC and 127 BC, reconciled with her in 124 BC.
		Ptolemy XI Alexander II (80 BC) married and ruled jointly with Berenice III before murdering her; ruled alone for 19 days after that.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ptolemaic_dynasty (517 words)

	Encyclopedia: Ptolemy III of Egypt
		Ptolemy III Euergetes is responsible for the start of the "Rosetta Stone Series", the Bilinguals inscribed upon massive, stone block, in (3)three Scripts.
		Under the reign of Ptolemy IV Philopator (reigned 221-204 BC), son of Ptolemy III, the decline of the Ptolemaic kingdom began.
		Ptolemy V Epiphanes (reigned 204-181 BC), son of Ptolemy IV Philopator and Arsinoë, was not more than five years old when he came to the throne, and under a series of regents the kingdom was paralysed.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Ptolemy-III-of-Egypt (688 words)

	Ptolemy - The Ptolemies
		Ptolemy and his descendants adopted Egyptian royal trappings and added Egypt's religion to their own, worshipping the gods of Eternity and building temples to them, and even being mummified and buried in sarcophagi covered with hieroglyphs.
		Ptolemy's son and heir, Ptolemy II Philadelphus, for instance, had a passion for science, and Ptolemy III as we shall see, was a manic collector of books.
		Ptolemy I, though respectful as he was of the Egyptian culture, nevertheless believed the Greek culture to be superior in many respects, and thus the preservation of it in Alexandria was of utmost importance.
	www.crystalinks.com /ptolemy.html (2667 words)

	Ptolemy IV of Egypt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Under the reign of Ptolemy IV Philopator (reigned 221-204 BC), son of Ptolemy III and Berenice II of Egypt, the decline of the Ptolemaic kingdom began.
		Self-interest led his ministers to make serious preparations to meet the attacks of Antiochus III the Great on Palestine, and the great Egyptian victory of Raphia (217), at which Ptolemy himself was present, secured the kingdom for the remainder of his reign.
		Ptolemy IV is a major protagonist of the apocryphal 3 Maccabees, which describes purported events following the Battle of Raphia, in both Jerusalem and Alexandria.
	www.sevenhills.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Ptolemy_IV_of_Egypt (303 words)

	Ptolemy III Euergetes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He married Berenice of Cyrene in the year corresponding to 244/243 BC; and they were parents of Arsinoe III and Ptolemy IV Philopator.
		Ptolemy III Euergetes had put up the first of the Rosetta Stone series, the bilingual inscriptions on massive stone blocks in three writing systems.
		Ptolemy III's stone stele is the Canopus Stone of 238 B.C.E. His son, Ptolemy IV, is responsible for the Memphis Stele, or Memphis Stone, the second in the series, bearing the Decree of Memphis, about 218 B.C.E. The famous Rosetta Stone is the third, erected by Ptolemy V, in 196 BC.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ptolemy_III_of_Egypt (227 words)

	AllRefer.com - Ptolemy III (Ancient History, Egypt, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		B.C.), of the Macedonian dynasty, son of Ptolemy II and the first ArsinoE.
		Berenice and her son seem to have been murdered before Ptolemy could arrive, and Seleucus II held the throne, though the Egyptian king won a brilliant if impermanent victory.
		Egyptian fleets controlled most of the coasts of Asia Minor and E Greece, and the kingdom was enlarged by Ptolemy's marriage to Berenice, daughter and heiress of the king of Cyrene.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/P/Ptlmy3.html (216 words)

	58) Egypt, Ptolemy IV Philopator (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This coin depicting Ptolemy III Euergetes (Benefactor) was issued by his successor, Ptolemy IV Philopator (Father-lover), as a gesture of dynastic continuity and of the filial piety that his name implies.
		Ptolemy III was the son of Ptolemy II and Arsinoe II.
		The portrait on the obverse confers upon Ptolemy III several attributes of divinity.
	www.lawrence.edu /dept/art/buerger/catalogue/058.html (229 words)

	Ptolemy III of Egypt : Ptolemy III Euergeter I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Ptolemy III of Egypt : Ptolemy III Euergeter I
		Ptolemy III Euergeter I, (Ptolemaeus III) (Evergetes, Euergetes) (246 BC-222 BC).
		He was the father of III of Egypt">Arsinoe III of Egypt.
	www.termsdefined.net /pt/ptolemy-iii-euergeter-i.html (362 words)

	Greece: Alexander and Hellenic Times: Shaw's Outline of Ancient History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Ptolemy I Soter (305-283) born in 367/6 BCE of a certain Lagos and Arsinoe, both Macedonian nobility.
		Ptolemy composed a long historical work on the life of Alexander which became the primary source for the works of Arrian.
		Ptolemy Keraunos son of Ptolemy I Soter by Eurydice was proclaimed king of Macedonia by the army in 280 and was killed by the Gauls along with his army, in 279 BCE
	www.juyayay.com /outline/greece/politics03.html (873 words)

	Ptolemy IV Philopator, The Fourth King of Egypt's Greek Period
		Under the Ptolemies, there was no real national foundation established for their rule in Egypt as the successor and son of Ptolemy III Euergetes, Ptolemy IV Philopator took the throne.
		From the time of Ptolemy IV onward, the dynasty's declining prestige abroad was matched by faltering administration at home, though it is hard to decide whether constant dynastic intrigues, minority regencies, military reversals and economic crises were primarily responsible for the breakdown of the system, or whether simmering anarchy and anti-governmental feelings contributed more.
		Those of Ptolemy were scared off by the larger elephants, and at first the battle went against the Egyptians, but Antiochus III overextended himself, leaving himself open for the defeat in a pitched battle considered one of the largest of this period.
	www.touregypt.net /featurestories/ptolemy4.htm (1460 words)

	Ptolemy III
		Ptolemy IV, which is why the latter was called Philopator, but this seems unlikely, since Philopator was his official title, and since Polybius' account, which is certainly hostile to Ptolemy IV, does not accuse him of this crime.
		Polybius notes that Antigonus III Doson, king of Macedon, attended the Nemean games shortly after defeating Cleomenes king of Sparta at the battle of Selassia, and Plutarch, Cleomenes 31, notes that Cleomenes immediately fled to Egypt, where he met with Ptolemy III, but that the king died shortly after he arrived.
		Ptolemy II (ii) several of the epistates named in these documents are attested in both high numbered and low numbered years, e.g.
	www.geocities.com /christopherjbennett/ptolemies/ptolemy_iii.htm (3572 words)

	Ptolemy II Philadelphus
		Ptolemy II maintained a splendid court in Alexandria.
		In a second war with the Seleucid kingdom, under Antiochus II Theos (after 260), Ptolemy sustained losses on the seaboard of Asia Minor and agreed to a peace by which Antiochus married his daughter Berenice (ca.
		Ptolemy deified his parents and his sister-wife, after her death (270), as Philadelphus.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Bios/PtolemyIIPhiladelphus.html (517 words)

	Berenice III
		Ptolemy IX had given the title to all his children in order to promote harmony amongst them, but there is no apparent evidence that Ptolemy of Cyprus ever bore the title.
		Ptolemy XI was on Cos throughout the period of his father's marriage to Berenice III, he was surely still regarded as a royal son, and probably as the king's heir.
		are a formulaic error, the examples of the children of Ptolemy II by Arsinoe I posthumously adopted by Arsinoe II, Cleopatra III as "daughter" of Ptolemy VIII, and the sons of Ptolemy IX probably by Cleopatra IV and adopted by Cleopatra Selene suggest that the possibility of adoption is real.
	www.geocities.com /christopherjbennett/ptolemies/berenice_iii.htm (2111 words)

	Ptolemy IV
		who established that Ptolemy V succeeded between 1 Mecheir and 1 Mesore, suggested 17 Phaophi was the day he was crowned king in Memphis after his accession, noting that the language was standard for a king receiving kingship from his divine father.
		Ptolemy II and died under Ptolemy V. But if the reference to year 11 of Ptolemy II is based on his accession then the priest was born in May 272 and died late February 202, i.e.
		Polybius' description of the death of Ptolemy IV is lost, but he introduces his account of the succession of Ptolemy V (15.25.3) by the phrase "after four or five days", suggesting perhaps only a brief period of concealment.
	www.tyndale.cam.ac.uk /Egypt/ptolemies/ptolemy_iv.htm (3150 words)

	History of Alexandria: The Ptolemaic City (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		His son, Ptolemy III Euergetes (Well-doer), was full of will and motivation.
		Ptolemy Euergetes was succeeded by less influential Kings.
		The legacy of the Ptolemies is highlighted by major achievements.
	ce.eng.usf.edu /pharos/Alexandria/History/ptolemaic.html (415 words)

	Greek Rule -- Ptolemies & Seleucids
		This ruler was the son of Ptolemy I. Under his rule the Jews, both in Egypt and Palestine, enjoyed a lengthy period of quiet, and also some degree of prosperity.
		The Ptolemies were very successful and managed to capture a large part of the Seleucid Empire, including all of Syria, before local problems called Ptolemy III back to Egypt.
		In the year 221 BC, Ptolemy III died and was succeeded by Ptolemy IV, Philopater, who was without a doubt the most cruel and vicious ruler of the Ptolemaic Dynasty.
	www.zianet.com /maxey/Inter2.htm (2912 words)

	Ptolemy VIII
		He is also sometimes numbered as Ptolemy VII and Ptolemy IX, depending on the convention used to number Ptolemy Eupator and Ptolemy Neos Philopator.
		Ptolemy VI and Ptolemy VIII had visited Rome to plead for help but only Ptolemy VIII was unmarried at the time.
		For Strack's suggestion that Ptolemy Neos Philopator was a younger brother of Ptolemy Memphites by Cleopatra II, or the eldest son of Cleopatra III, see discussion under Ptolemy Memphites.
	www.geocities.com /christopherjbennett/ptolemies/ptolemy_viii.htm (1314 words)

	(57) Egypt, Ptolemy III Euergetes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Ptolemy III Euergetes (Benefactor) carried on successful military campaigns (see no. 58) that brought new wealth into Egypt, resulting in the minting of octodrachms and other gold denominations and a return to the Attic weight standard, which had not been used in Egypt for over sixty years.
		The most common type on the obverse of the octodrachms was a portrait of his wife, Berenike II of Kyrene.
		The fruit-filled cornucopia bound with the royal diadem of the reverse is a symbol of abundance and prosperity often depicted on the coins of agricultural Egypt.
	www.lawrence.edu /dept/art/buerger/catalogue/057.html (225 words)

	Ptolemies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Ptolemy III Euergetes 246-222 invaded Syria and conquered Babylon.
		Invaded Syria because of the murder of his sister Berenice, the wife of Antiochus II Picture of Ptolemy III on coin minted by Ptolemy IV Ptolemy IV Philopator 222-204; married to Arsinoe III; defeated Antiochus III at Raphia.
		Married to Cleopatra I, the daughter of Antiochus III.
	prophetess.lstc.edu /~rklein/Documents/western.htm (280 words)

	Additional Reading (from Ptolemy III Euergetes) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Ptolemy III's reign is discussed in W.W. Tarn, Hellenistic Civilisation, 3rd ed.
		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.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-92789?tocId=92789 (798 words)

	Magas son of Ptolemy III
		It follows that the exedra shows all of Ptolemy III's children born before February 238, the date of the death of Berenice, as given by the Canopus Decree (OGIS 56).
		These clearly named a "basilissa" Arsinoe, daughter of king Ptolemy and queen Berenice, at the leftmost end of the dedicatory inscription, another child of king Ptolemy and queen [Bere]ni[ce] partway along it, and a "basillissa" or "basileos" at the rightmost end.
		In view of the position and the maternity of the intermediate child, these children must belong to Ptolemy III and Berenice II, and so it is apparent that the last child was the "basilissa" Berenice, and that the royal sons were named between the two daughters.
	www.tyndale.cam.ac.uk /Egypt/ptolemies/magas_ii.htm (1391 words)

	Ptolemy III
		The termini of the beginning of the first year of Ptolemy III are computed as follows.
		Suppose the first year of Ptolemy III existed of one or more days, his 2nd year to his 25th one were of course full, and his 26th one existed of one of more days.
		From Ptolemy II 39 till Ptolemy III 1 is 0 years because of the use of antedating.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/cplawassist/paper/1500103.html (514 words)

	The Book of Daniel
		When Ptolemy II Philadelphus died in 246, Berenice II was divorced by her husband who married Laodice, a former wife, who poisoned her new husband Antiochus II, thus removing "his arm".
		The oldest was killed in Asia Minor and Antiochus III the Great pushed down into Palestine to the fortress Raphia in 219 where he was defeated in 217 by Ptolemy IV Philopator.
		Antiochus III the Great captured the fortified city of Sidon in 203 and held Palestine by 199 but was driven back by Scopas of Egypt in 198 who eventually lost at Paneas and Sidon which assured Antiochus III the Great complete authority over Palestine.
	www.theology.edu /daniel.htm (727 words)

	Nile Musings ~ Vol. 1 No. 8 ~ Celebrating the Egyptian Arabian Horse
		Ptolemy III was also called Ptolemy Euergetes, the Benefactor.
		Ptolemy III lived in Alexandria, the northern city in Egypt established by Alexander the Great.
		Farther south near Aswan, Ptolemy Euegertes built the Mamissi birthhouse in the temple at Philae.
	www.nilemuse.com /muse/1-8.html (496 words)

	* The House of Ptolemy: Kings, Queens, and the Rest of the Royal Ptolemies *
		coregency with Ptolemy XV (Caesar Philopator Philometor "Caesarion"): 36-30 involvement with Julius Caesar: 48 to 44;
		She wears a unique vulture headdress and is shown shaking a sistrum, or rattle, with the cow's head of the goddess Hathor.
		Government and conditions under the Ptolemies; Religion; The Rulers of Ptolemaic dynasty; Administration; Economy; Dynastic strife and decline (145-30 BC); Culture; and The Ptolemies (305-145 BC).
	www.houseofptolemy.org /housekng.htm (1324 words)

	Jewish History -- Part Two
		The Ptolemies ran an efficient and tightly controled economy, with political seat in Alexandria.
		Palestine and Phoenicia include important sea ports, and become regions where the two sides frequently clash, and where borders are frequently redrawn.
		246 Ptolemy invades Syria to avenge the death of his sister Berenice and her son (Dan.11:7-8).
	www.westmont.edu /~fisk/Articles/jewhistb.htm (700 words)

	Ptolemy 3 Euergetes 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		He was part of the Ptolemaic dynasty and son of Ptolemy 2.
		He also invaded Syria as the Seleucids were suspected of planning to murder the sister of Ptolemy, together with her son, the heir of the Syrian throne.
		As with his father, culture flourished under Ptolemy.
	i-cias.com /e.o/ptolemy_3.htm (116 words)

	Daniel 11 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		His son, Ptolemy II Philadelphia ruled Egypt, and sent his daughter, Berenice, to Antiochus II, who had become king of Syria.
		Antiochus III Magnus (The Great) took the throne in 223 BCE and fought against Ptolemy IV Philopator to recover his Syrian territories.
		Antiochus III (The Great) was killed by his countrymen in 187 BCE at Elymais.
	members.aol.com /gparrishjr/d11.html (5898 words)

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