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	List of ancient Greeks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ptolemy I of Egypt - Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt
		Ptolemy III of Egypt - Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt
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	Ptolemaic dynasty : The Ptolemaic Dynasty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		VIII of Egypt">Ptolemy VIII of Egypt[?] and III of Egypt">Cleopatra III of Egypt[?] Euergetes (Kokke)
		XII of Egypt">Ptolemy XII of Egypt Neos Dionysos (Auletes) and VI of Egypt">Cleopatra VI of Egypt[?] Tryphaena
		XIII of Egypt">Ptolemy XIII of Egypt and VII of Egypt">Cleopatra VII of Egypt
	www.city-search.org /th/the-ptolemaic-dynasty.html (549 words)

	Ptolemaic dynasty
		Ptolemy VIII of Egypt[?] and Cleopatra III of Egypt[?] Euergetes (Kokke)
		Ptolemy XII of Egypt Neos Dionysos (Auletes) and Cleopatra VI of Egypt[?] Tryphaena
		Ptolemy XIII of Egypt and Cleopatra VII of Egypt
	www.fastload.org /pt/Ptolemaic_dynasty.html (254 words)

	Ptolemy XII of Egypt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ptolemy XII Neos Dionysos Theos Philopator Theos Philadelphos (New Dionysus, God Beloved of his Father, God Beloved of his Brother) (117 BCE - 51 BCE) was son of Ptolemy IX Soter II.
		He was king of Egypt from 80 BCE to 58 BCE and from 55 BCE until his death.
		He followed Ptolemy XI Alexandros II who had been killed by an angry crowd, after having killed his popular coregent Berenice III, who was incidentally also a daughter of Ptolemy IX Soter II.
	www.lighthousepoint.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Ptolemy_XII (394 words)

	Arsinoe III of Egypt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Arsinoe III (246 BC or 245 BC - 204 BC) was Queen of Egypt (220 - 204 BC).
		She was a daughter of Ptolemy III and Berenice II.
		She was a maenad and rode at the head of infantry and cavalry to fight Antiochus the Great at Raphia in 217 B.C.E. She was the mother of Ptolemy V In Summer, 204 BC she was murdered in a palace coup, shortly before her husband's own death.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arsinoe_III_of_Egypt (139 words)

	Ptolemy IV of Egypt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		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)

	Open Directory - Reference: Encyclopedias: Subject Encyclopedias: Encyclopaedia of the Orient: P (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ptolemy I - King of Egypt from 323 until 285 BCE and father of the Ptolemaic dynasty.
		Ptolemy III - King of Egypt and third in the dinasty.
		Ptolemy XII - King of Egypt that is most known for his attempt to remove his sister Cleopatra from her position.
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	P Reference, Directory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ptolemy I King of Egypt from 323 until 285 BCE and father of the Ptolemaic dynasty.
		Ptolemy III King of Egypt and third in the dinasty.
		Ptolemy XII King of Egypt that is most known for his attempt to remove his sister Cleopatra from her position.
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	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.
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	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)

	(57) Egypt, Ptolemy III Euergetes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		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)

	Berenice - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Berenice I of Egypt, mother of Magas of Cyrene and wife of Ptolemy I.
		Berenice II of Egypt, daughter of Magas of Cyrene and wife of Ptolemy III.
		Berenice IV of Egypt, daughter of Ptolemy XII and elder sister of Cleopatra.
	www.lexington-fayette.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Berenice (278 words)

	Wikipedia: Library of Alexandria
		It is usually assumed to have been founded at the beginning of the 3rd century BC during the reign of Ptolemy II of Egypt after his father had set up the Temple of the Muses or Museum.
		By decree of Ptolemy III of Egypt, all visitors to the city were required to surrender all books and scrolls in their possession; these writings were then swiftly copied by official scribes.
		These were therefore razed to the ground, and the images of their gods molten into pots and other convenient utensils for the use of the Alexandrian church; for the emperor had instructed Theophilus to distribute them for the relief of the poor.
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/l/li/library_of_alexandria.html (2285 words)

	Reign of the Ptolemies: Egypt After Alexander the Great - www.ezboard.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ptolemy, son of Lagus, was satrap of Egypt from 323 to 305 b.c.
		Fortunately for Egypt, Cleopatra remembered "rather that she was wife of Ptolemy and queen of Egypt, than that she was the daughter of Antiochus "The Great" of the Seleucus Realm".31 Dying prematurely in 176 b.c.
		Ptolemy XII is most famous, apart from the reputation of debauchery second only to that of Physcon,50 for fathering a daughter later to be known as Cleopatra VII., the most famous of the Ptolemies.
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	Ptolemy III of Egypt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ptolemy III Euergetes I, (Ptolemaeus III) (Evergetes, Euergetes) (246 BC-222 BC).
		The third ruler of the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt, he was the eldest son of Ptolemy II of Egypt Philadelphus and Arsinoe II of Egypt.
		He was the father of Arsinoe III of Egypt.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/ptolemy_iii_of_egypt (151 words)

	SELEUCUS II. The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		On his father’s death there was a struggle for the throne between Seleucus and his stepmother, Berenice (on behalf of her infant son).
		Seleucus seems to have murdered both Berenice and her son before her brother Ptolemy III of Egypt could arrive.
		He was succeeded by his son Seleucus III, who was killed after a three-year reign; another son, Antiochus III, then became king.
	www.bartleby.com /aol/65/se/Seleuc2.html (88 words)

	Ptolemy III (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		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.tyndale.cam.ac.uk /Egypt/ptolemies/ptolemy_iii.htm (3572 words)

	58) Egypt, Ptolemy IV Philopator (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		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)

	Cleomenes III (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Cleomenes III was the son of Leonidas II.
		The army was reorganized on the Macedonian model and a small subsidy from Ptolemy III of Egypt was paid.
		Ptolemy III Euergetes now stood aside and stopped the subsidy, and Sparta stood alone.
	read-and-go.hopto.org /Rulers-of-Sparta/Cleomenes-III.html (353 words)

	Egypt: Rulers, Kings and Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt: Cleopatra III & Ptolemy IX Soter II (Lathyros) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Egypt: Rulers, Kings and Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt: Cleopatra III & Ptolemy IX Soter II (Lathyros)
		Cleopatra III and Ptolemy IX Soter II (Lathyros) were co-regents during the Ptolemaic Dynasty.
		Cleopatra III was the niece of Physcon (Ptolemy VIII Euergetes II) and was married to him while her mother was still his official wife.
	www.touregypt.net /32dyn09.htm (324 words)

	Egypt: Rulers, Kings and Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt: Ptolemy III Euergeter I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ptolemy III Euergeter I was the third ruler of the Ptolemaic Dynasty.
		He was the son of Ptolemy II Philadelphus and Arsinoe II and was married to Berenike, his sister.
		During the Third Syrian War of Ptolemy III, he discovered the main port in the Axumite kingdom, which was very important to the trade of ivory.
	touregypt.net /32dyn03.htm (83 words)

	Great Battles of History: Sellasia Background & Variant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		When Cleomenes III succeeded his father, Leonidas II, as a king of Sparta in 235 BC, the different city-states and leagues were pawns in the power struggles between the great powers of Macedon, Seleucid Syria, and Ptolemaic Egypt.
		Ptolemy III Eurgetes of Egypt had been supporting the Achaeans as a restraint on the power of Macedon.
		However, Ptolemy died within a year and his son, Ptolemy IV Philopator (of Raphia), considered the Spartan and his followers a threat.
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	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.
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	Daniel 11
		This is the beginning of the conflict between the Ptolemies (Egypt) and the Seleucids (Syria, Babylonia, and Media).
		Others argue that the prince of the covenant is referring to Ptolemy IV because he agreed to become an ally of Antiochus if the Syrians would help him regain the throne in Egypt.
		Ptolemy VI was defeated partly by sedition and desertion in and from his own army.
	www.westpalmbeachchurchofchrist.com /articles/daniel/daniel11.html (2538 words)

	3rd century BC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ptolemy I of EgyptPtolemy I Soter (305 BC-282 BC) and his wives Eurydice of EgyptEurydice and Berenice I of EgyptBerenice I/.
		Ptolemy II of EgyptPtolemy II Philadelphos (284 BC-246 BC) and his wives Arsinoe I of EgyptArsinoe I and Arsinoe II of EgyptArsinoe II/ Philadelphos.
		Ptolemy III of EgyptPtolemy III Euergetes I (246 BC-222 BC) and his wife Berenice II of EgyptBerenice II/.
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	222 BC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Cleomenes III defeated and the Spartan army annihilated by Achaeus, general of Antiochus III the Great in the Battle of Sellasia.
		Ptolemy IV of EgyptPtolemy IV succeeds his father Ptolemy III as king of Egypt/.
		Ptolemy III of EgyptPtolemy III Euergeter I, king of Egypt/
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	Search Results for cleopatra egypt - Encyclopædia Britannica
		queen of Egypt (193–176 BC), wife of Ptolemy V Epiphanes and regent for her minor son, Ptolemy VI Philometor.
		Ptolemaic Egypt represented, in the words of the 20th-century historian Frank William Walbank, “a large-scale experiment in bureaucratic centralism and in mercantilism.” There was a constant need to...
		Ptolemy was his mother's co-ruler, killed by Octavian, later the emperor Augustus, after Cleopatra's death in 30.
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	Today's Word: Daniel 11:5-20 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The expressions “king of the North” and “king of the South” repeatedly occur throughout the remainder of chapter 11.
		Ptolemy III returned to Egypt from Antioch with idols, princes and precious articles of silver and gold.
		Antiochus III returned from Greece to Antioch and died in 187 B.C. He wanted to reunite Alexander’s Empire but failed because he did not assess the power of the Roman Empire correctly.
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	LIBRARY OF ALEXANDRIA FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		To commemorate the ancient library, the government of Egypt has built a major library and museum complex at Alexandria, called the Bibliotheca_Alexandrina(website).
		Then he destroyed the Serapeum, and the bloody rites of the Mithreum he publicly caricatured; the Serapeum also he showed full of extravagant superstitions, and he had the phalli of Priapus carried through the midst of the forum.
		When the Ptolemies stopped exporting papyrus, partly because of competitors and partly because of shortages, the Pergamenes invented a new substance to use in codices, called pergamum or parchment after the city.
	www.dontpayyourtaxes.com /Library_of_Alexandria (2572 words)

	A Trip to Egypt Helps Us Find Prime Numbers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Alexandria is located in Egypt on the delta of the Nile River.
		Egypt at that time was under the control of the Greeks, and Alexandria was the center of scientific learning.
		Eratosthenes used a metal plate, and presented the plate to Ptolemy III, King of Egypt.
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	Daniel 11 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Antiochus III Magnus (The Great) took the throne in 223 BCE and fought against Ptolemy IV Philopator to recover his Syrian territories.
		He moved toward Egypt, but was repelled by the Roman fleet at Thermopylae in 188 BCE.
		Antiochus III (The Great) was killed by his countrymen in 187 BCE at Elymais.
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