Arsinoe of Macedon ( Ancient Greek : Ἀρσινόη ; lived 4th century BC) was an ancient Macedonian noblewoman and the mother of Ptolemy I Soter (323 – 283 BC), king of Ptolemaic Egypt .
16-815: Arsinoe (Ancient Greek: Ἀρσινόη , romanized: Arsinóē ) may refer to: People [ edit ] Arsinoe of Macedon , mother of Ptolemy I Soter Apama II or Arsinoe (c. 292 BC–after 249 BC), wife of Magas of Cyrene and mother of Berenice II Arsinoe, probable mother of Lysimachus or his first wife Nicaea of Macedon Arsinoe I (305 BC–247 BC) of Egypt Arsinoe II (316 BC–270 BC) of Egypt Arsinoe III of Egypt (c. 246 BC–204 BC) Arsinoe IV of Egypt (died 41 BC), half-sister of Cleopatra VII Arsinoe (mythology) , name of multiple mythological figures Places [ edit ] Arsinoe (Cilicia) Arsinoe (Crete) Arsinoe (Northwest Cyprus) Arsinoe (Southwest Cyprus) Arsinoe (Gulf of Suez) ,
32-663: A community in Messenia Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Arsinoe . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arsinoe&oldid=1254053051 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Human name disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text Short description
48-766: A port of Egypt Arsinoe (Eritrea) Conope (Greece) or Arsinoe Ephesus , also called Arsinoe Faiyum (Egypt), also called Arsinoe or Crocodilopolis, seat of the Roman Catholic titular bishopric Arsinoë in Arcadia Famagusta (Cyprus) or Arsinoe Coressia (Greece), called Arsinoe in the Hellenistic period Methana (Greece), called Arsinoe in the Ptolemaic period Olbia (Egypt) or Arsinoe Patara (Lycia) or Arsinoe Taucheira (Libya) or Arsinoe Arsinoes Chaos , located in
64-488: A publication now in the public domain : Smith, William , ed. (1870). "Arsinoe". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology . This Ancient Greek biographical article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Argead dynasty The Argead dynasty ( Greek : Ἀργεάδαι , romanized : Argeádai ), also known as the Temenid dynasty ( Greek : Τημενίδαι , Tēmenídai )
80-612: A relative when the former's kingship was perceived to be weak. An example was Philip's rebellion against his older brother, king Perdiccas II , in the prelude to the Peloponnesian War (433–431 BCE). Modern historians disagree on a number of details concerning the genealogy of the Argead dynasty. Robin Lane Fox , for example, refutes Nicholas Hammond's claim that Ptolemy of Aloros was Amyntas II's son, arguing that Ptolemy
96-470: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Arsinoe of Macedon Arsinoe was of the Argead dynasty , and originally a concubine of Philip II , king of Macedon , and it is said she was given by Philip to Lagus , a Macedonian nobleman, while she was pregnant with Ptolemy I Soter, but it is possible that this is a later myth fabricated to glorify
112-543: The Ptolemaic Dynasty . Alternately, Ptolemy's lineage to the Argead dynasty was found through his mother, Arsinoe, in this case Arsinoe is daughter of Meleager, who was a cousin of Amyntas III and son of Balacrus, son of Amyntas, son of Alexander I of Macedon . Contemporary and modern research concludes the latter claim much more valid than Philip II as Ptolemy’s father, now dismissed as a myth. [REDACTED] This article incorporates text from
128-611: The Temenids of Argos, in the Peloponnese , whose legendary ancestor was Temenus , the great-great-grandson of Heracles . In the excavations of the royal palace at Aegae , Manolis Andronikos discovered in the "tholos" room (according to some scholars "tholos" was the throne room) a Greek inscription relating to that belief. This is testified by Herodotus , in The Histories , where he mentions that three brothers of
144-677: The Argead dynasty is King Caranus . The Argeads claimed descent from Heracles through his great-great-grandson Temenus , also king of Argos . The words Argead and Argive derive (via Latin Argīvus ) from the Greek Ἀργεῖος ( Argeios meaning "of or from Argos "), which is first attested in Homer where it was also used as a collective designation for the Greeks ( "Ἀργείων Δαναῶν" , Argive Danaans ). The Argead dynasty claimed descent from
160-747: The Margaritifer Sinus quadrangle on Mars Literature [ edit ] Arsinoe, a character in Le Misanthrope by Molière Arsinoe, a character in The Etruscan by Mika Waltari Arsinoe, a character in Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake Arsinoe, Queen of Cyprus , a 1705 English opera Other uses [ edit ] Arsinoe (beetle) , a genus of beetles in the family Carabidae 404 Arsinoë , an asteroid See also [ edit ] Arsinoi ,
176-616: The incident of the participation of Alexander I of Macedon in the Olympic Games in 504 or 500 BC where the participation of the Macedonian king was contested by participants on the grounds that he was not Greek. The Hellanodikai , however, after examining his Argead claim confirmed that the Macedonian kings were Greeks and allowed him to participate. Another theory supported by the Greek historian Miltiades Hatzopoulos, following
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#1732797679067192-551: The lineage of Temenus, Gauanes , Aeropus and Perdiccas , fled from Argos to the Illyrians and then to Upper Macedonia , to a town called Lebaea , where they served the king. The latter asked them to leave his territory, believing in an omen that something great would happen to Perdiccas. The boys went to another part of Macedonia , near the garden of Midas , above which mount Bermio stands. There they made their abode and slowly formed their own kingdom. Herodotus also relates
208-703: The opinion of the ancient author Appian , is that the Argead dynasty actually came from Argos Orestikon . According to Thucydides , in the History of the Peloponnesian War , the Argeads were originally Temenids from Argos, who descended from the highlands to Lower Macedonia, expelled the Pierians from Pieria and acquired in Paionia a narrow strip along the river Axios extending to Pella and
224-451: The sea. They also added Mygdonia in their territory through the expulsion of the Edoni , Eordians , and Almopians . The death of the king almost invariably triggered dynastic disputes and often a war of succession between members of the Argead family, leading to political and economic instability. These included: Additionally, long-established monarchs could still face a rebellion by
240-549: The time of Philip II they had expanded their reign further, to include under the rule of Macedonia all Upper Macedonian states. The family's most celebrated members were Philip II of Macedon and his son Alexander the Great , under whose leadership the kingdom of Macedonia gradually gained predominance throughout Greece, defeated the Achaemenid Empire and expanded as far as Egypt and India . The mythical founder of
256-471: Was an ancient Macedonian royal house of Dorian Greek provenance. They were the founders and the ruling dynasty of the kingdom of Macedon from about 700 to 310 BC. Their tradition, as described in ancient Greek historiography , traced their origins to Argos , of Peloponnese in Southern Greece, hence the name Argeads or Argives . Initially rulers of the tribe of the same name, by
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