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Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library, 20.100.3


nan In the case of Ptolemy, since they wanted to surpass his record by repaying his kindness with a greater one, they sent a sacred mission into Libya to ask the oracle at ammon if it advised the Rhodians to honour Ptolemy as a god.


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1. Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library, 20.100.1 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

20.100.1.  In this way, then, the Rhodians, after they had been besieged for a year, brought the war to an end. Those who had proved themselves brave men in the battles they honoured with the prizes that were their due, and they granted freedom and citizenship to such slaves as had shown themselves courageous.
2. Josephus Flavius, Jewish Antiquities, 12.3 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

12.3. And while these princes ambitiously strove one against another, every one for his own principality, it came to pass that there were continual wars, and those lasting wars too; and the cities were sufferers, and lost a great many of their inhabitants in these times of distress, insomuch that all Syria, by the means of Ptolemy the son of Lagus, underwent the reverse of that denomination of Savior, which he then had. 12.3. Out of regard therefore to justice, and out of pity to those that have been tyrannized over, contrary to equity, I enjoin those that have such Jews in their service to set them at liberty, upon the receipt of the before-mentioned sum; and that no one use any deceit about them, but obey what is here commanded. 12.3. And when Judas saw their camp, and how numerous their enemies were, he persuaded his own soldiers to be of good courage, and exhorted them to place their hopes of victory in God, and to make supplication to him, according to the custom of their country, clothed in sackcloth; and to show what was their usual habit of supplication in the greatest dangers, and thereby to prevail with God to grant you the victory over your enemies.
3. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 1.8.6 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

1.8.6. Before the entrance of the theater which they call the Odeum (Music Hall) are statues of Egyptian kings. They are all alike called Ptolemy, but each has his own surname. For they call one Philometor, and another Philadelphus, while the son of Lagus is called Soter, a name given him by the Rhodians. of these, Philadelphus is he whom I have mentioned before among the eponymoi, and near him is a statue of his sister Arsinoe .


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agatharcides of cnidus, on jews' treatment by ptolemy i" Bar Kochba, Pseudo-Hecataeus on the Jews: Legitimizing the Jewish Diaspora (1997) 78
asia minor Grzesik, Honorific Culture at Delphi in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods (2022) 17
athens Grzesik, Honorific Culture at Delphi in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods (2022) 17
benefactorss Grzesik, Honorific Culture at Delphi in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods (2022) 17
boeotia Grzesik, Honorific Culture at Delphi in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods (2022) 17
chaironeia Grzesik, Honorific Culture at Delphi in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods (2022) 17
cult, ruler cults Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 430
dedications Grzesik, Honorific Culture at Delphi in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods (2022) 17
egypt, jews migrate to Bar Kochba, Pseudo-Hecataeus on the Jews: Legitimizing the Jewish Diaspora (1997) 78
foreign judges Grzesik, Honorific Culture at Delphi in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods (2022) 17
gaza, battle of, and destruction of by ptolemy Bar Kochba, Pseudo-Hecataeus on the Jews: Legitimizing the Jewish Diaspora (1997) 78
gods and goddesses, deification Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 430
hellenistic kings and rulers Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 430
hezekiah story, unknown to pseudo-aristeas Bar Kochba, Pseudo-Hecataeus on the Jews: Legitimizing the Jewish Diaspora (1997) 78
inscriptions, lindian chronicle Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 430
ipsus Bar Kochba, Pseudo-Hecataeus on the Jews: Legitimizing the Jewish Diaspora (1997) 78
manumissions Grzesik, Honorific Culture at Delphi in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods (2022) 17
peloponnese Grzesik, Honorific Culture at Delphi in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods (2022) 17
persian wars Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 430
photius Bar Kochba, Pseudo-Hecataeus on the Jews: Legitimizing the Jewish Diaspora (1997) 78
platt, verity Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 430
pseudo-aristeas, absence of hezekiah story in Bar Kochba, Pseudo-Hecataeus on the Jews: Legitimizing the Jewish Diaspora (1997) 78
pseudo-aristeas, hezekiah story unknown to Bar Kochba, Pseudo-Hecataeus on the Jews: Legitimizing the Jewish Diaspora (1997) 78
pseudo-aristeas, on treatment of jews Bar Kochba, Pseudo-Hecataeus on the Jews: Legitimizing the Jewish Diaspora (1997) 78
ptolemy i, treatment of jews Bar Kochba, Pseudo-Hecataeus on the Jews: Legitimizing the Jewish Diaspora (1997) 78
ptolemy i (soter, king) Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 430
rhodes Grzesik, Honorific Culture at Delphi in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods (2022) 17
slaves Grzesik, Honorific Culture at Delphi in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods (2022) 17
soldiers and mercenaries' Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 430
thessaly Grzesik, Honorific Culture at Delphi in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods (2022) 17