{"slug": "arsinoe-ii", "label": "Arsinoe II", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsinoe_II", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40234", "qid": "Q40234", "description": "Ptolemaic Greek Princess of Ancient Egypt and Queen of Thrace, Asia Minor and Macedonia", "entries": 6, "years": 6, "span": [-315, -269], "span_label": ["316 BCE", "270 BCE"], "topics": [{"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 2}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": ["Arsinoe II of Egypt"], "related": [{"slug": "thrace", "label": "Thrace", "shared": 5}, {"slug": "ancient-egypt", "label": "Ancient Egypt", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "ptolemy-ii-philadelphus", "label": "Ptolemy II Philadelphus", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "lysimachus", "label": "Lysimachus", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "alexandria", "label": "Alexandria", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ancient-greece", "label": "Ancient Greece", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "seleucus-i-nicator", "label": "Seleucus I Nicator", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "upper-egypt", "label": "Upper Egypt", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -315, "year_label": "316 BCE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Arsinoe II, Queen of Thrace and later co-ruler of Egypt with her brother and husband Ptolemy II of Egypt (d. 270 BC)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1007737454#Births", "title": "316 BC", "revid": 1007737454, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": -299, "year_label": "300 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Ptolemy concludes an alliance with King Lysimachus of Thrace and gives him his daughter Arsinoe II in marriage.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350129363#Egypt", "title": "300 BC", "revid": 1350129363, "section": "Events › By place › Egypt"}}, {"year": -283, "year_label": "284 BCE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "Lysimachus' wife, Arsinoe, being keen to gain the succession to the kingdom of Thrace for her sons in preference to Agathocles (the eldest son of Lysimachus), intrigues against him with the help of her brother Ptolemy Keraunos. They accuse him of conspiring with Seleucus to seize the throne, and Agathocles is put to death. This atrocious deed by Lysimachus and his family arouses great indignation. Many of the cities in Asia Minor revolt and some of his most trusted friends desert him.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370480303#Asia_Minor", "title": "284 BC", "revid": 1370480303, "section": "Events › By place › Asia Minor"}}, {"year": -280, "year_label": "281 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Following the Battle of Corupedium, Lysimachus's widow, Arsinoe, flees to Cassandrea, a city in northern Greece, where she marries her half-brother Ptolemy Keraunos. This proves to be a serious misjudgement, as Ptolemy Keraunus promptly kills two of her sons, though the third is able to escape. Arsinoe flees again, this time to Alexandria in Egypt.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366700718#Asia_Minor", "title": "281 BC", "revid": 1366700718, "section": "Events › By place › Asia Minor"}}, {"year": -275, "year_label": "276 BCE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "The Egyptian King Ptolemy II's first wife, Arsinoe I (daughter of the late King Lysimachus of Thrace) is accused, probably at instigation of Ptolemy II's sister (who also has the name Arsinoe), of plotting his murder and is exiled by the King. Arsinoe then marries her own brother, a customary practice in Egypt, but scandalous to the Greeks. The suffix \"Philadelphoi\" (\"Brother-Loving\") consequently is added to the names of King Ptolemy II and Queen Arsinoe II. The former queen, Arsinoe I, is banished to Coptos, a city of Upper Egypt near the Wadi Hammamat, while her rival adopts her children.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1256257267#Egypt", "title": "276 BC", "revid": 1256257267, "section": "Events › By place › Egypt"}}, {"year": -269, "year_label": "270 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Arsinoe II, queen to Lysimachus, the king of Thrace, and later wife of her brother, King Ptolemy II Philadelphus of Egypt (b. c. 316 BC)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1317756359#Deaths", "title": "270 BC", "revid": 1317756359, "section": "Deaths"}}]}