Arsinoe of Macedon

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title: Arsinoe of Macedon
text: Arsinoe of Macedon was a Macedonian noblewoman and the mother of Ptolemy, Pharaoh of Egypt. 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 the Ptolemaic Dynasty. Alternately, Ptolemy's lineage to the Argead dynasty was found through his mother, Arsinoe, in this case Ars
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description: 4th-century BC Macedonian woman
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsinoe_of_Macedon
date created: 2005-09-25T14:13:11Z
date modified: 2024-08-28T02:25:09Z
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