id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-6825 Arsinoe II - Wikipedia .html text/html 3491 777 74 Arsinoe was queen of Thrace, Anatolia and Macedonia by marriage to King Lysimachus and co-ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom with her brother-husband, Pharaoh Ptolemy II Philadelphus. Her role as queen was unprecedented in the dynasty at the time and became a role model for later Ptolemaic queens: she acted alongside her brother in ritual and public display, became a religious and literal patron and was included in the Egyptian and Greek cults created by him for them.[14] Sharing in all of her brother's titles,[15] she apparently was quite influential, having towns dedicated to her, her own cult (as was Egyptian custom), appearing on coinage and contributing to foreign policy,[16] including Ptolemy II's victory in the First Syrian War between Egypt and the Seleucid Empire. Arsinoe seems to have been a genuinely popular goddess throughout the Ptolemaic period, with both Greeks and Egyptians, in Egypt and beyond. Arsinoe III ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6825.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6825.txt