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Queen Ptolemais and Apama

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

W. W. Tarn
W. W. Tarn
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Muirtown House, Inverness.
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It has been common in history for the conqueror or usurper to fortify his position by marrying a daughter of the old line. It was done by Alexander at the beginning of the Hellenistic period, by Herod at the end. There is reason to believe that it was also done both by Ptolemy I. and Seleucus.

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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 23 , Issue 3-4 , June 1929 , pp. 138 - 141
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1929

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page 138 note1 Schnur, Werner, Klio, XX., 1926, pp. 297, 301Google Scholar , quoting a document from Sethe's Urkunden; see also Bouché-Leclercq, A., Histoire des Lagides, IV., P. 5Google Scholar, n. 2. Schnur makes Nakhtenebef Nectanebo II. (p. 274, n. 1).

page 138 note 2 Weber, W., Die ägyptisch-griechischen Terra-kotten, I., 1914, pp. 112Google Scholar sq. He says: ‘Das kann kaum etwas anderes bedeuten, also dasser [Ptolemy I.] ihr rechtmassigen Nachfolger und als freier, legitimer Pharao angesehen zu werden gewünscht hat’.

page 138 note 3 Sethe, K., Hieroglvphisohe Urkunden der griech.röm. Zeit, p. 27, no. 12. Mr. S. R. K. Glanville kindly made me a note of its contents. It is referred to by Bouche-Leclercq, III., p. 88, n. I; see note 1, page 2, post.Google Scholar

page 138 note 4 See the list of the illegitimate cbildren of Ptolemy I. in Bouché-Leclercq, I., p. 26, n. 4.

page 138 note 5 On this phase see Kornemann, E., Raccolta Lumbroso, p. 235Google Scholar. Bevan, E., A History of Egypt under the Ptolemaic Dynasty, p. 53Google Scholar, rather wonders why Ptolemy, in imitation of Alexander, did not marry a native princess. I think that he did.

page 139 note 1 Bouché-Leclercq, III., p. 88, n. I, at first suspected that Ptolemais might have been a wife of Ptolemy I., but finally inclined to believe that she was merely Arsinoe II.

page 139 note2 The unmarried Ptolemaic princesses were called Βaóiλώa: O.G.I.S. 35.

page 139 note 3 Miletus' decree for Apama: RevHclleaux, M.,. Ét. Gr. XXXVI., 1923, p. 1.Google Scholar

The case of Ptolemy II. is a generation later; also his consort, being a goddess, was not officially dead.

page 139 note 5 Jos, . Ant. XI. 54Google Scholar ; 1 Esdras 4, 29. The wholestory has strong resemblances to Pseudo-Aristeas. A curious attempt, which I need not consider, has been made to prove this Apama historical and shift her to the reign of Darius III.: Torrey, C. C., Amer. Journ. of Semitic Languages, XXIII., 1906–1907, p. 177Google Scholar .

page 139 note 6 Plut. Eum. 1.

page 140 note 1 Arr, . Anab. VII. 4, 6Google Scholar ; undoubtedly from the Journal through Ptolemy.

page 140 note 2 J.H.S. XLI., 1921, p. 26Google Scholar and n. 21.

page 140 note 3 Hermippus, , fr. 72 (F.H.G. III., p. 51)Google Scholar ; Strab. XII. 563. Nothing is known of her but the name.

page 140 note 4 Plut, . Artax. 27Google Scholar.

page 140 note 5 O.G.I.S. 223, 1. 24; 220, 1. 20. Dittenberger's notes show how hopeless the difficulty has been.

page 140 note 6 Arrian, , Parthica, fr. I (F.H.G. III., p. 587)Google Scholar.

page 141 note 7 Diod. XXXI. 19.

page 141 note 8 App. Syr. 13; Livy, XXXV, 47, 5.

page 141 note 1 O.G.I.S. 388 to 401.

page 141 note 2 Ib. 399, 400.

page 141 note 3 J.H.S. XLI., 1921, p. 18Google Scholar . See Wilamowitz, , Helknistiche Dichtung, II., p. 146Google Scholar, n. 2, who accepts my view.

page 141 note 4 I gave some instances, J.H.S. XLI., 1921, p. 27Google Scholar .

page 141 note 5 Kornemann op. cit.