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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;philologus_1, post: 26325545, member: 92212&quot;]I&#039;ve researched this before, and was unable to find any ancient source that mentioned a dowry of Arsinoe when she married Ptolemy II.&nbsp; My hunch is that there wasn&#039;t a dowry in the sense of the word as it is commonly and rightly used. <u>After all, the couple were full siblings. Who would have paid the dowry</u>? </p><p><br /></p><p>Also, it cannot be overlooked that Arsinoe had already been a Queen twice. Any lands to which she had any claim would have been bled into the Ptolemaic Kingdom upon her marriage to Pt. II.&nbsp; The idea that it was a dowry seems to be modern history&#039;s conjecture.&nbsp; I suppose there is some basis/rationale for that conjecture, but literary evidence seems totally lacking to be able to state with certainty that there even was a dowry -- let alone that such a dowry included Marathos.&nbsp; It feels more likely that Ptolemy II&#039;s forces just captured Marathos, (<u>re</u>-conquering it actually).&nbsp; After all, he had a strong army/navy and was often focused on expanding his land through conquering it -- especially coastal cities.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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