Arsinoe

Arsinoe, the name borne by several Egyptian princesses. (1) The daughter of Ptolemy I., who about 300 B.C. married Lysimachns, King of Thrace. After his death being persecuted by Ptolemy Ceraunus, her half-brother, who married her, and murdered her children, she became the wife of her brother, Ptolemy Philadelphus. (2) The daughter of Ptolemy Euergetes, called Cleopatra by Livy. She married her brother Ptolemy Philopater, accompanied him in his war against Syria 217 B.C., but was put to death by her husband through the influence of a mistress. (3) The daughter of Ptolemy XL, and sister of the famous Cleopatra, at whose request she was put to death by Antony. Several towns, notably Suez and Crocodilopolis, were named Arsinoe after one or another of these princesses.