Talk:Ptolemy II Philadelphus

message: Why isn't this page at Ptolemy II Philadelphus, as the intro would suggest?
(Note that the Seleucids are Seleucus I Nicator. and so on.) Wikipedia:naming conventions does not forbid either, by its own wording. Septentrionalis!
I fully agree. "Ptolemy"=Egypt, anyway, so it's completely redundant. john k 19:07, 10 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm under the impression that he retroactively dated his reign by at least a year: https://www.jstor.org/stable/1088741 and that it was made up, and this redating was followed by Ptolemy III-V Cornelius (talk) 11:29, 31 August 2022 (UTC)
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message: I've corrected the beginning of Ptolemy's co-reign in accordance with the Oxford Classical Dictionary ed.3.  Some give the date as 286. Ory Amitay (talk) 13:41, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm under the impression that he retroactively dated his reign by at least a year: https://www.jstor.org/stable/1088741 and that it was made up, and this redating was followed by Ptolemy III-V Cornelius (talk) 11:29, 31 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: date of co-reign

message: The insinuations that Ptolemy married Arsinoë II to follow Egyptian customs seems to be mostly discredited. Even the subsection linked only describes in detail Ptolemaic incest as customary which seems to be a cyclical definition. Modern scholarship tends to consider the lack of evidence for regular intra-familial marriages as stronger evidence than the Greek rumors of incest among them. While the reasons are unclear, a fair bit of modern scholarship argues that this incest was coupled with the deification of his family members to cement the dynasty as divine like the pharaonic rule before them. The incest being beneficial to this image as Isis/Osiris and Zeus/Hera were divine examples of incest that they could emulate. 
I'd definitely consider removing the reference to the custom egyptian incest as by now it's mostly discredited. Aside from that, it's up for debate how much to insert considering so much of the debate around ptolemaic incest continues. --Snafu66 17:18, 1 June 2017 (UTC)
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message: QUOTE: Relations with India END OF QUOTE
India was born in 1947. The mention in the article is about a relation with a kingdom in the northeastern parts of the South Asian Subcontinent.
:The Indus Valley was traditionally known as 'India' even in the time of Alexander. Relax.104.169.21.238 (talk) 16:26, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not with India. 

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