Year 246 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Crassus and Licinus (or, less frequently...

Republican government 249–246 BC In 249 BC Cyrene again became a republic, but was restored to Ptolemaic control in 246 BC by Ptolemy III who married...

measurements. 247 BC Hannibal Barca, Carthaginian military commander (d. c. 183 BC) 246 BC Arsinoe III, queen of Egypt from 220 BC, daughter of Ptolemy...

Benefactor"; c. 280 – November/December 222 BC) was the third pharaoh of the Ptolemaic dynasty in Egypt from 246 to 222 BC. The Ptolemaic Kingdom reached the height...

Ephesus. The date of the battle is uncertain, but generally the year 246/245 BC is accepted. Following the battle, the Egyptian king Ptolemy III Euergetes...

tenures were reduced to a single year. Under Ptolemy II Philadelphus (r. 282–246 BC), Alexander's body was brought to the sēma, and, in contrast to the usual...

Pharaoh (283–246 BC) Ptolemy III Euergetes, Pharaoh (246–222 BC) Ptolemy IV Philopator, Pharaoh (221–204 BC) Ptolemy V Epiphanes, Pharaoh (204–181 BC) Kush (complete...

"Ptolemy, sibling-lover"; 309 – 28 January 246 BC) was the pharaoh of Ptolemaic Egypt from 284 to 246 BC. He was the son of Ptolemy I, the Macedonian...

Euergetes' ascension to the throne in 246 BC. The third head librarian, Eratosthenes of Cyrene (lived c. 280–c. 194 BC), is best known today for his scientific...

"Antiochus the God"; 286 – July 246 BC) was a Greek king of the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire who reigned from 261 to 246 BC. He succeeded his father Antiochus...