Ptolemy VI Philometor

180 BCE–145 BCE · Ptolemaic-Roman

Ptolemy VI Philometor was a Ptolemaic king whose reign saw the humiliating Seleucid invasion under Antiochus IV, halted only by Roman intervention (the so-called 'Day of Eleusis'), and a tangled period of co-rule with his brother Ptolemy VIII. Under him, according to Josephus, the Jewish high priest Onias IV founded a temple at Leontopolis in the Delta. The Antiochus IV episode connects to the background of the Maccabean revolt in Judaea.

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

Graeco-Roman world

Antipater Tarsensis· 200 BCE–130 BCE
Polybius· 200 BCE–118 BCE
Nicander of Colophon· 185 BCE–130 BCE

Jewish world

Yose ben Yochanan of Jerusalem· 200 BCE–150 BCE
Yehuda ben Matityahu (Judah Maccabee)· 190 BCE–160 BCE
Nitai HaArbeli· 180 BCE–120 BCE

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