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PTOLEMY IV

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 617 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PTOLEMY IV . Philopator (reigned 221-204), son of the pre-ceding, was a wretched debauchee under whom the decline of the Ptolemaic See also:kingdom began. His reign was inaugurated by the See also:murder of his See also:mother, and he was always under the dominion of favourites, male and See also:female, who indulged his vices and See also:con-ducted the See also:government as they pleased. Self-See also:interest led his ministers to make serious preparations to meet the attacks of See also:Antiochus III. (the See also:Great) on See also:Palestine, and the great See also:Egyptian victory of Raphia (217), at which Ptolemy himself was See also:present, secured the See also:province till the next reign. The arming of Egyptians in this See also:campaign had a disturbing effect upon the native See also:population of See also:Egypt, so that rebellions were continuous for the next See also:thirty years. Philopator was devoted to orgiastic forms of See also:religion and See also:literary dilettantism. He built a See also:temple to See also:Homer and composed a tragedy, to which his vile favourite See also:Agathocles added a commentary. He married (about 215) his See also:sister See also:Arsinoe (III.), but continued.to be ruled by his See also:mistress Agathoclea, sister of Agathocles.

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