Arsinoe

Arsinoe (Ancient Greek: Ἀρσινόη), sometimes spelled Arsinoë, pronounced Arsinoi in modern Greek, may refer to:

People

• Arsinoe of Macedon, mother of Ptolemy I Soter
• Apama II or Arsinoe (c. 292 BC-after 249 BC), wife of Magas of Cyrene and mother of Berenice II
• Arsinoe, probable mother of Lysimachus or his first wife Nicaea of Macedon
• Arsinoe I (305 BC–247 BC) of Egypt
• Arsinoe II (316 BC–270 BC) of Egypt
• Arsinoe III of Egypt (died 204 BC)
• Arsinoe IV of Egypt (died 41 BC), half-sister of Cleopatra VII

Places

• Arsinoe (Cilicia)
• Arsinoe (Crete)
• Arsinoe (Northwest Cyprus)
• Arsinoe (Southwest Cyprus)
• Arsinoe (Gulf of Suez), a port of Egypt
• Arsinoe (Eritrea)
• Faiyum (Egypt), also called Arsinoe or Crocodilopolis
• Famagusta (Cyprus) or Arsinoe
• Konope (Greece) or Arsinoe
• Methana (Greece), called Arsinoe in the Ptolemaic period
• Olbia (Egypt) or Arsinoe
• Patara (Lycia) or Arsinoe
• Taucheira (Libya) or Arsinoe
• Arsinoes Chaos, located in the Margaritifer Sinus quadrangle on Mars.

Mythology

• Arsinoe or Laodamia, nurse of Orestes
• Arsinoe, daughter of Leucippus and possible mother of Asclepius by Apollo
• Arsinoe or Alphesiboea, daughter of Phegeus, king of Psophis, and wife of Alcmaeon
• Arsinoe, one of the Minyades, according to Plutarch
• Arsinoe, one of the Nysiads
• Arsinoe, daughter of Nicocreon, loved by Arceophon

Literature

• Arsinoe, a character in Le Misanthrope by Molière
• Arsinoe, a character in The Etruscan by Mika Waltari

Other uses

• Arsinoe (genus), a genus of beetle in the family Carabidae
• 404 Arsinoë, an asteroid

See also

• Arsinoi, a community in Messenia