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The 9 pages that link to Ptolemy II Philadelphus, each with the reason it gives.

• CallimachusRelated: His reign provides the courtly setting associated with Callimachus’s career.

• Antigonus II GonatasRelated: He backed opponents of Gonatas during the Chremonidean War.

• TheocritusRelated: Theocritus’s encomium to Ptolemy links his poetry with royal patronage.

• Lighthouse of AlexandriaRelated: Ancient tradition associates the lighthouse’s completion with his rule.

• Chremonidean WarRelated: His rivalry with Macedon shaped Egypt’s support for the Greek alliance.

• Ptolemy III EuergetesRelated: His death in 246 BCE brought Ptolemy III to the throne.

• Apollonius of RhodesRelated: Apollonius’s traditional dates place his work within the court culture of Ptolemy II.