1. Arsinoe II was Queen consort of Thrace, Anatolia, and Macedonia by her first and second marriage, to king Lysimachus and king Ptolemy Keraunos respectively, and then Queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt by marriage to her brother, Pharaoh Ptolemy II Philadelphus.
Arsinoe II was the first daughter of Pharaoh Ptolemy I Soter, founder of the Hellenistic state of Egypt, and his second wife Berenice I of Egypt.
Around the age of 15, Arsinoe II married King Lysimachus, who was then around 60 years old.
Arsinoe II reportedly paid for a rotunda in the Samothrace temple complex, where she was likely an initiate.
In 281 BC, Lysimachus died in battle and Arsinoe II fled to Cassandreia.
Arsinoe II sought refuge in the Samothrace temple complex, which she had benefited during her tenure as queen.
Arsinoe II eventually left from Samothrace for Alexandria, Egypt, to seek protection from her brother, Ptolemy II Philadelphus.
Whatever the case, after the divorce of Ptolemy, Arsinoe II then married her brother.
Arsinoe II died in 270 or 268 BC and circumstantial evidence supports the latter date.
Arsinoe II received burial and deification rites at Mendes, where she had been a priestess.
An annual priesthood, known as the Canephorus of Arsinoe II Philadelphus, was established by 269 BC.
An annual procession was held in Arsinoe II's honour, led by the Canephorus.
The admiral Callicrates of Samos erected another sanctuary at Cape Zephyrium, at the eastern end of the harbour, where Arsinoe II was worshipped as Aphrodite Euploia.
Arsinoe II appears in this guise on a set of mass-produced faience Oenochoae, which seem to have been associated with funerary ritual in Alexandria.
Arsinoe II seems to have been a genuinely popular goddess throughout the Ptolemaic period, with both Greeks and Egyptians, in Egypt and beyond.
Arsinoe II married Lysimachus of Thrace in 300 or 299 BC and had three children:.