Person Info
- Name: Arsinoe
- Sex: F
- Birth: Abt 316 BC b
- Death: 25 Jul 270 d
Parents:
- Father:
- Ptolemy I Soter King Of Egypt
Birth: Abt 369 BC in Eordaea, Macedonia
Death: 10 Jan 282 BC
Mother:
- Berenike
Birth: Abt 340 BC
Death: Before 268 BC
Family:
Marriage:
Children:
- Philip Birth: Abt 293 BC
Death: 280 BC
- Lysimachus Birth: Abt 296 BC
Death: 280 BC in Cassandrea
- Ptolemy Birth: 299 BC
Death: After 240 BC
Marriage:
Marriage:
Bibliography
Sources for birth and parent Information
- date:
- abt 316 BC [Ref: Bennett Ptolemies Arsinoe-ii, Dodson Egypt p275],
- parents:
- [Ref: Bennett Ptolemies Genealogy-full, Dodson Egypt p266]
Sources for death Information
- date:
- 25 Jul 170 or 1/2 Jul 268 [Ref: Dodson Egypt p275]
- night of the new moon in Pachons year 15, either 25 Jul 270 or 1/2 Jul
268 BC [Ref: Bennett Ptolemies Arsinoe-ii]
Sources with Information about marriage to Lysimachos King Of Thrace
- date:
- 300/299 BC, as first marriage of Arsinoe [Ref: Dodson Egypt p275]
- 300/299 BC, as first marriage of Arsinoe and third of Lysimachus [Ref:
Bennett Ptolemies Arsinoe-ii]
- first marriage of Arsinoe and third of Lysimachus [Ref: Bennett
Ptolemies Genealogy-full, Bennett Ptolemies Genealogy-summary],
- names:
- [Ref: Bennett Ptolemies Aff-Lysimachos],
- child:
- [Ref: Bennett Ptolemies Arsinoe-ii, Bennett Ptolemies Genealogy-full,
Dodson Egypt p266]
Sources with Information about marriage to Ptolemy Ceraunus King Of Macedonia
- date:
- 281/280 BC [Ref: Dodson Egypt p275]
- second marriage of both [Ref: Bennett Ptolemies Genealogy-full]
- winter 281/280, as second marriage of both [Ref: Bennett Ptolemies
Ceraunus],
- place:
- [Ref: Bennett Ptolemies Ceraunus, Dodson Egypt p275],
- names:
- [Ref: Dodson Egypt p266]
Sources with Information about marriage to Ptolemy II Philadelphus King Of Egypt
- date:
- abt 273/273, as third marriage of Arsinoe [Ref: Dodson Egypt p275]
- second marriage of Ptolemy and third of Arsinoe [Ref: Bennett Ptolemies
Genealogy-full, Bennett Ptolemies Genealogy-summary],
- names:
- [Ref: Dodson Egypt p266]
Research Notes:
first marriage to Lysimachus, King of Thrace and Macedon, terminated by
his death at the battle or Corupendium in Feb 281, after which she
commanded the garrison at Cassandreia til winter 281/280 [Ref: Bennett
Ptolemies Arsinoe-ii]
second marriage to Ptolemy Ceraunus, her half-brother, terminated by his
murder of her two younger sons shortly after their marriage; she fled to
Samothrace [Ref: Bennett Ptolemies Arsinoe-ii]
272: in 127th Olympics, victor in all three events for harnessed horses [Ref:
Bennett Ptolemies Arsinoe-ii]
no children by Ptolemy II, but after her death he had his children by first
wife Arsinoe legally declared to be her children [Ref: Bennett Ptolemies
Arsinoe-ii]
posthumously held titles as queen of Egypt [Ref: Bennett Ptolemies Arsinoe-ii]
posthumously given the prenomen "Khnemibenmaatmerynetjeru" [Ref: Dodson Egypt
p275]
incorporated in the dynastic cult with Ptolemy II in year 13 (Mac)=273/2
or 14 (Mac)=272/1 as the Sibling Gods. [Ref: Bennett Ptolemies Arsinoe-ii]
Pedigree of Arsinoe
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Lagus
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Ptolemy I Soter King Of Egypt
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Alketas King Of Macedonia
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Amyntas I King Of Macedonia
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Alexander I King Of Macedonia
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Amyntas Prince Of Macedonia
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Balekros Prince Of Macedonia
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Maleagros
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Arsinoe
Arsinoe
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Magas
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Berenike
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Iolaos Prince Of Macedonia
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Kassandros
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Antigone
Descendants of Arsinoe