Ptolemy VIII Euergetes II (Physcon)

182 BCE–116 BCE · Ptolemaic-Roman

Ptolemy VIII Euergetes II was a Ptolemaic king whose long and violent reign epitomised the dynastic strife of the later Ptolemies: civil war with his sister-wife Cleopatra II, purges of the intellectuals of Alexandria, and a tangle of co-rule arrangements with the royal women. The hostile nickname 'Physcon' ('Potbelly') by which he is sometimes known comes from his enemies.

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

Jewish world

Nitai HaArbeli· 180 BCE–120 BCE
Yehoshua ben Perachya· 180 BCE–100 BCE
Yose ben Yochanan of Jerusalem· 200 BCE–150 BCE

Graeco-Roman world

Panaetius of Rhodes· 185 BCE–110 BCE
Hipparchus· 190 BCE–120 BCE
Nicander of Colophon· 185 BCE–130 BCE

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