Chi uscì con Tolomeo II?

Tolomeo Filadelfo (in greco antico Πτολεμαῖος Φιλάδελφος^?, Ptolemâios Philàdelphos; in egizio: ptwlmys, ptolemys; Coo, 308 a.C. – gennaio 246 a.C.), chiamato nella storiografia moderna Tolomeo II, è stato un faraone egizio appartenente al periodo tolemaico, secondo sovrano della dinastia, co-reggente dal 285 a.C. e unico monarca dal 282 a.C. alla sua morte.

Dopo essere succeduto al padre sul trono d'Egitto e aver sposato la sorella Arsinoe II, Tolomeo fu parte attiva in molte guerre, cercando di espandere il suo dominio in Anatolia, Siria, Cirenaica e Grecia: combatté la prima guerra siriaca (274-271 a.C.), la guerra cremonidea (268-261 a.C.) e la seconda guerra siriaca (260-253 a.C.), oltre che altri scontri minori, riuscendo a conquistare territori in Anatolia e a ottenere varie alleanze con le città-stato e le leghe greche, opponendosi all'impero seleucide e al regno di Macedonia. Negli ultimi anni cercò di riappacificarsi con il fratellastro Magas, re di Cirene, e di risollevare l'economia e la movimentazione culturale del suo regno, dopo lunghi periodi bellici.

Durante il suo regno furono promosse varie riforme volte al miglioramento dell'economia, cercando di dare più potere all'autorità statale togliendolo ai centri religiosi. Inoltre sotto Tolomeo II Alessandria diventò un grande centro dell'epoca ellenistica, grazie alla istituzione dei giochi tolemaici e alla forte spinta culturale data dalla Biblioteca e dal Museo.

Kleino (3rd-century BC) was an Ancient Greek musician and courtier.

She was a professional flute player, active in the Greek city of Alexandria in Egypt. She was appointed to the prestigious office of vine bearer to the king, Ptolemy II of Egypt. She became a well known public figure. Polybius reported that several public statues of her were seen all over Alexandria.

Bilistiche (in greco antico Βιλιστίχη^?, Bilistìche; Macedonia o Argo, ... – dopo il 264 a.C.) fu l'amante del re d'Egitto Tolomeo II, nota per essere stata una delle poche donne della storia a vincere due gare delle Olimpiadi.

Stratonice (Greek: Στρατονίκη; fl. possibly late second half of 4th century BC and first half of 3rd century BC) was a Greek noblewoman of very high status and was the wife of the Ptolemaic official Archagathus of Libya.

Stratonice is an unattested person and is only known through surviving evidence. When her husband was an Epistates in Libya serving in Cyrenaica, Stratonice and her husband Archagathus on marble piece made a dedication of a temenos to Isis and Serapis at Alexandria on behalf of Archagathus’ maternal uncle, the Ptolemaic prince Ptolemy II Philadelphus and his maternal grandmother the first Ptolemaic Queen Berenice I of Egypt. The record is dated from ca. 283 BC-278 BC and is on display in the Greco-Roman Museum of Alexandria. The inscription below translated in Greek and English reads:

ὑπὲρ βασιλέως Πτολεμαίου

τοῦ Πτολεμαίου καὶ Βερενίκης

Σωτήρων Άρχάγαθος Άγαθοκλέους

ὁ ἐπιστάτης τῆς Λιβύης

καὶ ἡ γυνὴ Στρατονίκη

Σαράπιδι Ἴσιδι τὸ τέμενος.

King Ptolemy

son of Ptolemy and Berenice

the Saviours Archagathus son of Agathocles

epistates of Libya

and his wife Stratonice

Serapis, Isis of temenos.

Stratonice made a dedication, to Ptolemy II's sister the Ptolemaic princess Arsinoe II. The original statue she dedicated was a Hellenistic original statue of Arsinoe II which must be dated from 280 BC-278 BC. The original Hellenistic statue of Arsinoe II was later copied as a Roman statue. The text from the Roman copy below translated in Greek and English reads:

Βασίλισσαν Ὰρσινόην βασιλέως

Πτολεμαίου καί βασιλίσσης Βερενίκης

Στρατονίκη βασιλέως Δημητρίου

Queen Arsinoe daughter of King

Ptolemy and Queen Berenice

Stratonice daughter of King Demetrius

The inscription reveals she was a daughter of a King Demetrius and there is a possibility that she could identified as an otherwise-unknown daughter of Greek Macedonian King Demetrius I Poliorcetes. According to the suggestions of L. Morretti (RFIC 93, 1965, 73) and R.S. Bagnall (Philologus 120, 1976, 195) that Stratonice may have been the sister of Alexander, son of Demetrius I Poliorcetes and Deidamia. Alexander lived his remaining life as an honorary hostage in Egypt and Stratonice may have accompanied him to Egypt. Alexander and Stratonice may have accompanied their maternal uncle Pyrrhus of Epirus to Egypt in c.299 BC when Pyrrhus lived as a hostage in the country. Stratonice is not to be confused with Stratonice of Syria, the known daughter of Demetrius I Poliorcetes of this name, who married as the second wife of Seleucus I Nicator and the wife of Antiochus I Soter. If this suggestion is correct, Stratonice was born at the same time as her husband between 301 BC-298 BC. There is no record of any children born to her marriage to Archagathus.

Stratonice may have been the same Stratonice who had a celebrated Mausoleum at Eleusis near Alexandria and was a later mistress of Ptolemy II.

Mnesis (fl. 3rd century BCE) was a mistress of Ptolemy Philadelphus. According to Athenaeus, she was a flute-player.