Ptolemy IV Philopator

244 BCE–205 BCE · Ptolemaic-Roman

Ptolemy IV Philopator was a Ptolemaic king who won the great Battle of Raphia against the Seleucids in 217 BCE, a victory notable for its large-scale use of native Egyptian troops, a step often linked to the great Theban revolts that followed. Under him dynastic decline and court intrigue set in, and the Upper Egyptian secession of rebel rulers at Thebes marks the beginning of the later Ptolemaic troubles.

The world in their lifetime

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

Jewish world

Antigonus of Sokho· 250 BCE–200 BCE

Graeco-Roman world

Plautus· 254 BCE–184 BCE
Aristophanes of Byzantium· 257 BCE–180 BCE
Apollonius of Perga· 240 BCE–190 BCE

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