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Archagathus and
Stratonice on a marble piece, made a dedication of a temenos to Isis and Serapis at Alexandria on behalf of his uncle Ptolemy II and his grandmother Berenice I. The record is dated from ca. 283 BC to 278 BC and is on display in the Greco-Roman Museum of Alexandria. The inscription
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According to surviving evidence, Archagathus was a person of high standing who appeared to be a totally unknown private person and was loyal to his family, in particular to his uncle Magas. We also learn from surviving evidence that
Archagathus had a wife, a noblewoman of very high status called
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Archagathus was born between 301 BC and 298 BC. Along with his sister they were born and raised in Sicily. When his father
Agathocles felt his death was approaching, he had Theoxena and their children sent away to Egypt. Agathocles died in 289 BC and declared his kingdom to be a democracy on his
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Pharaoh and founder of the Ptolemaic dynasty. Through his grandmother’s second marriage to Ptolemy I, Berenice I was an Egyptian Queen and the Queen mother of the Ptolemaic dynasty, thus his mother was a stepdaughter to Ptolemy I and became an Egyptian Princess. His maternal
186:. He served under Ptolemy I Soter (reigned 305 BC-283 BC), Ptolemy II Philadelphus (reigned 283 BC-246 BC) and even possibly under Magas when the latter served as Ptolemaic Governor and later as King of Cyrene (reigned 276 BC–250 BC).
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death. Archagathus, his sister with their mother, spent their remaining youth in Egypt, possibly in the court living with
Ptolemy I and Berenice I in
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His biological maternal grandfather Philip died about 318 BC. After his death, Berenice I travelled with her children to live in
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198:below translated in Greek and English reads:
68:His father Agathocles was a Greek Tyrant of
394:Ancient Library article: Archagathus, No.2
228:the Saviours Archagathus son of Agathocles
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202:ὑπὲρ βασιλέως Πτολεμαίου
61:and had a sister called
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155:Ptolemy II Philadelphus
153:and the future Pharaoh
211:ὁ ἐπιστάτης τῆς Λιβύης
214:καὶ ἡ γυνὴ Στρατονίκη
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253:References
192:Stratonice
168:Alexandria
161:Early life
147:Arsinoe II
100:Berenice I
96:Macedonian
55:Agathocles
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184:Cyrenaica
180:Epistates
151:Philotera
119:Antipater
39:Ptolemaic
31:Syracusan
26:Ἀρχάγαθος
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63:Theoxena
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246:temenos
238:Serapis
112:Phalanx
78:Lanassa
116:Regent
104:Philip
138:Egypt
93:Greek
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