Abstract:

Arsinoe I I , born in 316 BC, as the oldest child of Ptolemaios I and Berenike I, was the chief active female ruler figure in the Ptolemaic Dynasty. Arsinoe I I first got married Lysimakhos who was one of the friends and diadokhos of Alexander the Great like her father Ptolemaios Soter I. Secondly she married her step brother Ptolemaios Kerauno, the son of her father's first wife Eurydike. Arsinoe's last husband was her full brother Ptolemaios I I . Arsinoe I I was the queen that was worthy of every kind honourings during her life and afte r her death. Some of these honourings were to name newly founded cities as Arsinoe, to arrange festivals fo r her name, to build Arsinoe Temples called Arsinoeion, to leave offerings in the temples in the care of Arsinoe's personal cult, to take taxes named apomoira after her death and to name Fayum region as the A rsinoite Nomus. The Queen Arsinoe I I to whom the Egyptian priests gave a cartouche and a throne-name which were never given before to none of the Ptolemaic queen died in July, 270 BC

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