Ptolemy III Euergetes

280 BCE–222 BCE · Ptolemaic-Roman

Ptolemy III Euergetes was the Ptolemaic king at the height of the dynasty's power and territorial reach, victorious in the Third Syrian War against the Seleucids. The priestly Canopus Decree, a trilingual decree in hieroglyphic, demotic, and Greek that anticipates the later Rosetta Stone, dates to his reign and is an important document of Ptolemaic temple-state relations.

The world in their lifetime

Thinkers and teachers of other traditions whose lives overlapped with Ptolemy III Euergetes’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.

Graeco-Roman world

Archimedes· 287 BCE–212 BCE
Apollonius Rhodius· 295 BCE–215 BCE
Chrysippus· 279 BCE–206 BCE

Jewish world

Antigonus of Sokho· 250 BCE–200 BCE
Shimon HaTzaddik (Simeon the Just)· 310 BCE–270 BCE

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