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Arsinoe II's marriage to her half-brother wasn't a happy one. Through his marriage to
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quickly retaliated by capturing
Cassandreia and killing Lysimachus and his brother Philip. Arsinoe II and Lysimachus' other brother Ptolemy were able to escape. Later on his brother Ptolemy and his mother fled to Egypt, where his mother married his other maternal uncle
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Lysimachusâ mother died at an unknown date between 270 and 260 BC. At had some point after his mother's death, Ptolemy II had his children legally declared as the children of
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The union between
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after his mother. In 282 BC, his mother accused his half-brother
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Kings and colonists: aspects of Macedonian imperialism
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Ptolemaic Genealogy: Unknown wife of Ptolemy Ceraunus
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Ptolemaic Genealogy: Arsinoe II, Footnotes 4 & 5
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190:Babylon
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