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Ptolemy I Sotor
Ptolemy III Euergetes
- Born 367 BC -Died 283 BC (age of 84) -ruled Eygypt from 323 BC—283 BC -He was the first of the Ptolemaic dynasty -He was very warlike -He set the foundation for the Ptolemaic dynasty - His Son was Ptolemy II -During his rule, they was much warfare
Ptolemy I Sotor was a friend of Alexander the Great in his youth. At Susa, in 324 BC he married a daughter of the satrap Artabazus. He then divorced her and married the Eurydice of Macedonian and they had 6 children. When Alexander died, Ptolemy I made himself satrap. In the following year he took Cyrene. In the complex struggles of Alexander's successors he was not very successful at first. However in 291 he controlled the Aegean League of Islanders. Ptolemy became King in 305 BC. He was responsible for initiating a Greek speaking administration in Egypt, and he consulted Egyptians (Manetho and others), using their local expertise. There are few papyri from his reign, but hieroglyphic inscriptions from the Delta present him as a traditional pharaoh. Also, by moving the capital from Memphisto to Alexandria he made Egypt come into the mainstream of the Hellenistic world. Ptolemy I wrote a history of the reign of Alexander. Its title, length and its date of composition are not known today. Ptolemy stressed his personal contribution to the campaign and suppressed the achievements of his foes.
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Ptolemy I sotor
- He ruled from 246 - 222 BC. - He married Berenice II - He had three children. -one son Ptolemy IV, -two daughters Arsinoe III, Berenice III - invaded Mesopotamia
Fun Facts
Ptolemy III expanded the Egyptian empire into the kingdom of Syria, this happened because of the murder of his eldest daughter Berenice. He occupied Antioch and Babylon. Ptolemy III Euergetes was responsible for the first Rosetta Stone, known as the Canopus Stone in 238 BC. The stone has decrees on it about priestly orders, and memorializes his daughter Berenice. Two lines of hieroglyphs add a leap day to the Egyptian calendar. He finished building the temples started by his father, Ptolemy II at the Island of Philae and began to build the Edfu Temple in 237 BC.He also built the Esna Temple. Ptolemy III built the temple of Serapis (Serapeum),it was the biggest in the Greek quarter of Alexandria. the temple contained the second Library in Alexandria. It was constructed in 235 BC, and Ptolemy III gave much of his time and effort in expanding it.His Egyptian title is this: Iwaennetjerwysenw Sekhemankhra Setepamun. Which means: Son of the divine brother and sister, Living power of Ra, chosen by Amun'; the divine brother and sister are Ptolemy II Philadelphus and Arsinoe
