Ptolemy II Philadelphus (sources)

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Survey of ancient sources on Ptolemy II Philadelphus.

Early Christian sources

Josephus, Jewish Antiquities

Ant XII 2:1 -- When Alexander had reigned twelve years, and after him Ptolemy Soter forty years, Philadelphus then took the kingdom of Egypt, and held it forty years within one. He procured the law to be interpreted, and set free those that were come from Jerusalem into Egypt, and were in slavery there, who were a hundred and twenty thousand... (A detailed summary of the Letter of Aristeas follows in Ant 2:1-14.)