'''Philotera''' ({{langx|el| Φιλωτέρα}}, born 315/309 BC-probably after 282 BC and before 268 BC)<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.tyndalehouse.com/egypt/ptolemies/philotera.htm |title=Ptolemaic Genealogy: Philotera |access-date=2011-09-17 |archive-date=2016-04-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160405211929/http://www.tyndalehouse.com/egypt/ptolemies/philotera.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> was a Greek Macedonian noblewoman and a Greek Egyptian princess of the Ptolemaic dynasty.

Philotera was the daughter of Ptolemy I Soter and Berenice I of Egypt.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.tyndalehouse.com/egypt/ptolemies/philotera.htm |title=Ptolemaic Genealogy: Philotera |access-date=2011-09-17 |archive-date=2016-04-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160405211929/http://www.tyndalehouse.com/egypt/ptolemies/philotera.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> She had one older sister, Arsinoe II, and a younger brother, the future Pharaoh Ptolemy II Philadelphus.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.tyndalehouse.com/egypt/ptolemies/berenice_i_fr.htm |title=Ptolemaic Genealogy: Berenice I |access-date=2011-09-17 |archive-date=2011-10-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111005211349/http://www.tyndalehouse.com/egypt/ptolemies/berenice_i_fr.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> From her parents' previous marriages, Philotera had various half-maternal and half-paternal siblings.

Little is known of her life. Philotera died sometime after the accession of Ptolemy II to the Ptolemaic throne and before Arsinoe II died.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.tyndalehouse.com/egypt/ptolemies/philotera.htm |title=Ptolemaic Genealogy: Philotera, Footnote 5 |access-date=2011-09-17 |archive-date=2016-04-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160405211929/http://www.tyndalehouse.com/egypt/ptolemies/philotera.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> The fact that Philotera died before her sister did is demonstrated by a hymn written by Callimachus on the death of Arsinoe II.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.tyndalehouse.com/egypt/ptolemies/philotera.htm |title=Ptolemaic Genealogy: Philotera, Footnote 3 |access-date=2011-09-17 |archive-date=2016-04-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160405211929/http://www.tyndalehouse.com/egypt/ptolemies/philotera.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>

After Philotera died, Ptolemy II deified her as a goddess. Ptolemy II erected a temple in her honor in Alexandria. Greeks and Egyptians worshipped her along with Arsinoe II, and Ptolemy II created a religious cult in her honour.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.tyndalehouse.com/egypt/ptolemies/philotera.htm |title=Ptolemaic Genealogy: Philotera, Footnote 5 |access-date=2011-09-17 |archive-date=2016-04-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160405211929/http://www.tyndalehouse.com/egypt/ptolemies/philotera.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.tyndalehouse.com/egypt/ptolemies/arsinoe_ii.htm |title=Ptolemaic Genealogy: Arsinoe II, Footnote 17 |access-date=2011-09-17 |archive-date=2011-11-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111126034403/http://www.tyndalehouse.com/egypt/ptolemies/arsinoe_ii.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==City==

Philotera (Φιλωτέρα) and Philoteris (Φιλωτερίς)<ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0064:alphabetic+letter=P:entry+group=9:entry=philotera-geo Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), Philotera]</ref> was the ancient name of Safaga in Egypt. It was founded by Satyrus ({{langx|grc|Σάτυρος}}) and named in honor of the deceased sister of Ptolemy II Philadelphus.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://nabataea.net/philotera.html |title=The Maritime Incense Route Nabataea: Philotera |access-date=2020-12-24 |archive-date=2012-10-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121006232255/http://nabataea.net/philotera.html |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0099.tlg001.perseus-grc1:16.4.5 Strabo, Geography, §16.4.5]</ref><ref>[https://topostext.org/work/241#Ph666.16 Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica, §Ph666.16]</ref>

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