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Arsinoe II's marriage to her half-brother was not happy. Through his marriage to
Arsinoe II, Ptolemy Keraunos' political position was strengthened. As Ptolemy Keraunos was becoming too powerful, Arsinoe II conspired with her sons against him while he was away on a campaign. Ptolemy Keraunos quickly
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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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Lysimachus' mother died at an unknown date between 270 and 260 BC. At some point after her death, Ptolemy II had his children legally declared as the children of
Arsinoe II and had the sons of Arsinoe II legally declared as his children.
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The union between
Arsinoe II and Ptolemy Keraunos was purely political as they both claimed the Macedonian and Thracian thrones. By the time of Lysimachus' father's death, Ptolemy Keraunos' power extended into Greece.
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after his mother. In 282 BC, his mother accused his half-brother
Agathocles of treason and his father ordered the execution of Agathocles. After the death of his half-brother, Agathocles’ cousin-wife
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in 281 BC, Seleucus I defeated
Lysimachus in which his father died in battle. Seleucus I added Asia Minor and part of Thrace to his empire.
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and his paternal grandmother was an unnamed woman perhaps named
Arsinoe. From his father's previous marriages and from an
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W. Heckel, Who's who in the age of
Alexander the Great: prosopography of Alexander's empire, Wiley-Blackwell, 2006
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who married his father as his third wife and married him as her first husband. She was a daughter born to
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H. Bengtson, Griechische
Geschichte von den Anfängen bis in die römische Kaiserzeit, C.H.Beck, 1977
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part of his father's kingdom. After the death of his father, Arsinoe II and her sons fled to
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R.A. Billows, Kings and colonists: aspects of
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H.S. Lund, Lysimachus: A Study in Early Hellenistic Kingship, Routledge, 2002
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and perhaps another unnamed sister who may have been the first wife of
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Griechische Geschichte von den Anfängen bis in die römische Kaiserzeit
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G. Hölbl, A History of the Ptolemaic Empire, Routledge, 2001
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where he had himself acclaimed king by the Macedonian army.
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and Berenice I was the great-niece of the powerful Regent
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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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87:Asia Minor
68:Lysimachus
60:Arsinoe II
56:Lysimachus
44:Thessalian
40:Macedonian
36:Asia Minor
355:Pausanias
269:Billows,
158:Antipater
119:Arsinoe I
111:Alexander
91:Macedonia
46:descent.
449:Heckel,
193:Lysandra
189:Arsinoea
146:Diadochi
115:Eurydice
75:Diadochi
28:Φίλιππος
553:Sources
530:Hölbl,
517:Hölbl,
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383:, p.569
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201:Babylon
185:Ephesus
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436:Lund,
357:1.10.4
212:Aegean
169:Philip
165:Philip
83:Thrace
20:Philip
440:, p.3
32:Greek
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