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PTOLEMY IV

This article appears in Volume V22, Page 617 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PRE-PYR
PTOLEMY IV . Philopator (reigned 221-204), son of the pre-ceding, was a wretched debauchee under whom the decline of the Ptolemaic kingdom began. His reign was inaugurated by the murder of his
mother
 , and he was always under the dominion of favourites, male and female, who indulged his vices and con-ducted the government as they pleased. Self-
interest
  led his ministers to make serious preparations to meet the attacks of Antiochus III. (the
Great
 ) on Palestine, and the
great
  Egyptian victory of Raphia (217), at which
Ptolemy
  himself was present, secured the province till the next reign. The arming of Egyptians in this campaign had a disturbing effect upon the native population of
Egypt
 , so that rebellions were continuous for the next thirty years. Philopator was devoted to orgiastic forms of religion and literary dilettantism. He built a temple to
Homer
  and composed a tragedy, to which his vile favourite Agathocles added a commentary. He married (about 215) his
sister
  Arsinoe (III.), but continued.to be ruled by his mistress Agathoclea,
sister
  of Agathocles.


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