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Ptolemy II Philadelphus (285-246)

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Ptolemy II Philadelphus
Ptolemy II  Philadelphus (d.  246  B.C.E.) was the Second swayer of the Ptolemaic Period. He reigned from 285 B.C.E. until his end and was the son of Ptolemy I Soter and Queen Berenice (1). Ptolemy II married Arsinoe (1), the daughter of Lysimachus of Thrace, but exiled her to Koptos when his sister, different Arsinoe (2), passed  to Egypt from Thrace. When he formally married his sister, he received the title Philadelphus, meaning Brother-Sister Loving. From 274  to  271  B.C.E., Ptolemy II had  to  defend Egypt from the Syrians, but he attained power and body politic from bonds with other Greek states. During his dominate, Alexanderia grown a leading center for the arts and sciences. Ptolemy II also assisted irrigation projects passim the land. He celebrated a festival each four years in respect of  Ptolemy  I  Soter,  whom  he  deified,  and  dead  his  great  construction  projects,  including  the  Library of  Alexandria  and  the  Light  House of Alexanderia . He brought theaters, gardens, zoological presentations, and gymnasiums to distinct sites as well.

Ptolemy II was called the best paymaster, a freeman could have by the Greek poet Theocrites. He even empowered an dispatch south into Africas heartland to bring back  elephants  and  different  animals,  as  well  as incense. He then sent a delegation to Rome and brought 70 Jewish students to Alexandria from Jerusalem to transcribe  the  Pentateuch  accurately.  A  banquet  reportedly lasted for 7 nights upon the arrival of these students. Ptolemy  II  was  depicted  in  Philae offering  incense and creams to the gods. He erected a gate in the Philae temple. A stela was also adorned at Tell el-Maskhuta to commemorate  his  journey  to  Persia  to  regenerate  religious masterpieces taken by past swayer of that nation. Ptolemy II also reconstructed a canal joining the Nile to the Gulf of Suez, a waterway revived centuries afterward by Emperor Trajan. His  children  were  Ptolemy III Euergetes, Lysimachus, and  Berenice,  who  marital  Antiochus  of  Syria  in  252. Ptolemy III Euergetes followed him.


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