Hieroglyphic Name:
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| Hieroglyphic name of Ptolemy II |
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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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