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Ptolemy III, Eurgetes c.285-222BC
King of Egypt

The son and successor (283BC) of Ptolemy II, Philadelphus, he extended the limits of the empire in the Aegean and to the south, and for a time won much of Seleucid Asia. At the time of his death Egypt was prosperous and internally stable.

Bibliography: E R Bevan, The House of Ptolemy: A History of Egypt Under the Ptolemaic Dynasty (rev edn, 1968)