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Ptolemy III was the Third ruler of the Ptolemaic Period. He reigned from 246 B.C.E. until his death and was the son of Ptolemy II Philadelphus and Queen Arsinoe (2). Berenice (3), the daughter of Magas, the king of Cyrene, was his check. His sister, Berenice (2), was executed in Syria, and Ptolemy III invaded that land to avenge the murder. The Egyptian navy raised against Seleucus III's forces in Thrace, across the Hellespont, charming lands in Asia Minor. Ptolemy III took an army to Seleucia on the Tigris River but had to issue to Egypt because of a low Nile inundation and famine. He faced an alignment of Seleucid Syria, Macedonia, and Rhodes but was united by the Achaean League. A repose was prepared in 242/241 B.C.E.
In Egypt, Ptolemy III occupied the Faiyum and reformed the calendar with the canopus decree. He taken the title Euergetes, meaning the Benefactor, as a issue of these efforts. His efforts in Syria took more or less five years, and Berenice stood as regent during his absence with succeeder. During the leftover years of his reign, Ptolemy III established Minshaa, good Sohag in Upper Egypt, as a sister city to Alexandria. Two extending tables, a limestone wall, and a pillar capital were seen there. The site helped as a switching center with Nubia and the Red Sea.
He also constructed a temple in Edfu, reconstructing treasures slipped by the Persians centuries before. Ptolemy III established at the serapeum, contributing another library to accommodate an runoff of books, and taking up more volumes to have them re-create. In Reality, the particular manuscripts of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripedes come in Alexandria on lend from Athens. Ptolemy III made copies and sent them back to Athens, observing the originals. He forfeited an amount of silver, given in surety, as a issue. During his reign, Ptolemy III and Queen Berenice were deified as Charitable Gods by Egypt. The priests at Canopus declared their status in 238 B.C.E.
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In Egypt, Ptolemy III occupied the Faiyum and reformed the calendar with the canopus decree. He taken the title Euergetes, meaning the Benefactor, as a issue of these efforts. His efforts in Syria took more or less five years, and Berenice stood as regent during his absence with succeeder. During the leftover years of his reign, Ptolemy III established Minshaa, good Sohag in Upper Egypt, as a sister city to Alexandria. Two extending tables, a limestone wall, and a pillar capital were seen there. The site helped as a switching center with Nubia and the Red Sea.
He also constructed a temple in Edfu, reconstructing treasures slipped by the Persians centuries before. Ptolemy III established at the serapeum, contributing another library to accommodate an runoff of books, and taking up more volumes to have them re-create. In Reality, the particular manuscripts of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripedes come in Alexandria on lend from Athens. Ptolemy III made copies and sent them back to Athens, observing the originals. He forfeited an amount of silver, given in surety, as a issue. During his reign, Ptolemy III and Queen Berenice were deified as Charitable Gods by Egypt. The priests at Canopus declared their status in 238 B.C.E.
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