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PTOLEMY III

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PTOLEMY III . Euergetes I. (reigned 246-221), son of Ptolemy II. and See also:Arsinoe I. At the beginning of his reign he reunited the See also:Cyrenaica to See also:Egypt by marrying See also:Berenice the daughter and successor of Magas (who had died about 250). At the same See also:time he was obliged to open See also:war on the Seleucid See also:kingdom, where See also:Antiochus II. was dead and his See also:sister Berenice had been murdered, together with her See also:infant son, by Antiochus's former wife, Laodice, who claimed the kingdom for her son Seleucus II. Ptolemy marched triumphantly into the See also:heart of the Seleucid See also:realm, as far at any See also:rate as Babylonia, and received the formal submission of the provinces of See also:Iran, while his fleets in the See also:Aegean recovered what his See also:father had lost upon the seaboard, and made fresh conquests as far as See also:Thrace. This moment marks the See also:zenith of the Ptolemaic See also:power. After Ptolemy returned See also:home, indeed, Seleucus regained See also:northern See also:Syria and the eastern provinces, but the See also:naval predominance of Egypt in the Aegean remained, although there are traces of its being replaced locally, towards the end of Euergetes' reign, by that of See also:Macedonia—in Amorgos, See also:Naxos, Syros, Nisyros, See also:Cos and parts of See also:Crete (see Beloch, III. [ii.], p. 463). After his final See also:peace with Seleucus, Ptolemy no longer engaged actively in war, although his forces might occasionally mingle in the broils of See also:Asia See also:Minor, and he supported the enemies of Macedonia in See also:Greece. It seems probable that his See also:internal policy differed from his father's in patronizing the native See also:religion more liberally; he has See also:left larger traces at any rate among the monuments that are known to-See also:day.

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