Arsinoë
Arsinoë / Arsinoe ( Greek Ἀρσινόη ) are the following people:
- Arsinoë of Macedon , mother of General Alexander the Great and later King Ptolemy I of Egypt
Egyptian queens and regents from the Ptolemaic dynasty:
- Arsinoë I , first wife Ptolemy II (∞ around 285 BC)
- Arsinoë II (316 BC - 270 BC), daughter of Ptolemy I and second wife of her brother Ptolemy II.
- Arsinoë III. (246/5 BC - 204 BC), daughter of Ptolemy III. and wife of her brother Ptolemy IV.
- Arsinoë IV (between 68 and 63 BC - 41 BC), daughter of Ptolemy XII. and sister of Cleopatra VII.
Figures of Greek mythology:
- Arsinoë (wife of Alkmaion) , daughter of King Phegeus of Psophis
- Arsinoë, one of the minyads , a fabulous child murderer
- Arsinoë, nurse of Orestes
- Arsinoë (daughter of Leucippus) , mother of Asclepius from Apollo
- Arsinoë (daughter of Nikokreon) of Salamis, petrified by Aphrodite for disdaining the love of Arkeophon
- Arsinoë, one of the Hyades
- Arsinoë, Epiclesis of Aphrodite
Arsinoe / Arsinoë is the title of the following stage works:
- Arsinoe , an opera by Petronio Franceschini (1676)
- Arsinoe, Queen of Cyprus , an opera by Thomas Clayton (1705)
- La grandezza d'animo, or Arsinoe , an opera by Reinhard Keizer (1710)
- La verità nell'inganno ossia Arsinoe , an opera by Antonio Caldara (1727)
- Attalo ed Arsinoe , a drama per musica by Antonio Bioni (1728)
- Arsinoe , an opera seria by Vincenzo L Limitio Ciampi (1758)
- Arsinoe , an opera seria by Gaetano Andreozzi (1795)
The following ancient cities were called Arsinoe :
- Arsinoe (near Suez) , a place founded by Ptolemy II at the exit of the Bubastis Canal, also Cleopatris, see Bubastis Canal # Ptolemaic Canal
- Arsinoe (Troglodytica) , city on the Red Sea in the Regio Troglodytica
- Arsinoe (Aithiopia) , city in Aithiopia, at the entrance to the Red Sea, near today's Bab al-Mandab
- Arsinoe (Kilikia Tracheia) , city in Kilikia Tracheia, on the coast east of today's Bozyazı in Turkey
- Arsinoe (Crete) , city on Crete near today's Limenas Chersonisou
- several places in Cyprus:
- City in southeastern Cyprus, today Famagusta
- City in northwestern Cyprus, today Polis Chrysochous , near old Marion, see Marion (Kingdom)
- City in southwestern Cyprus, on the coast south of Paphos
- Arsinoe en Auloni , place in the Jordan Valley, in the Bekaa plain or in the Wadi Arabah
Especially under the rule of the Ptolemies, Arsinoe was the name of:
- Ephesus in Ionia, 3rd century BC Renamed temporarily to Arsinoeia or Arsinoe
- Konope in Aetolia, near today's Angelokastro (Akarnania) in Greece
- Krokodilopolis, ancient Egyptian Schedet, in Egypt, today Madinat al-Fayyum
- Koressia on Keos Island, today Korisia on Kea
- Methana in the Peloponnese
- Patara in Lycia
- Rhithymna in Crete, today Rethymno
- Taucheira in the Libyan Kyrenaica
The following titular dioceses are called Arsinoë :
Arsinoe / Arsinoë also denotes:
- Arsinoë (comic) , an erotic comic series
- (404) Arsinoe , an asteroid
