Ptolemy Philadelphus
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 4 anchored passages
Ptolemy · the Ptolemies
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Protrepticus
Egyptian king who establishes the Sarapis cult image at Alexandria.
For some record that he was sent as a thank-offering by the men of Sinope to Ptolemy Philadelphus, king of the Egyptians, who recovered them, when they were wasted by famine, by sending for grain from Egypt;
Apologeticum
Egyptian king who commissioned the Greek translation of the Jewish scriptures.
But that the knowledge might not be wanting, this too was granted by the Jews to Ptolemy:
To this day the libraries of Ptolemy are exhibited at the Serapeum, together with the very Hebrew writings.
The most learned of the Ptolemies, whom they surname Philadelphus, and most sagacious in all literature, when in zeal for libraries he rivalled, I think, Pisistratus, among other records to which either antiquity or some curiosity lent fame, at the suggestion of Demetrius of Phalerum, then the most approved of grammarians, to whom he had entrusted the charge, requested books also from the Jews, th …