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250 E. S. G. ROBINSON.
and heiress of Magas, to Ptolemy II' s son. In 258,
however, Magas died, and his Syrian widow, ill content
with the impending union of the Pentapolis with
Egypt,
summoned from Macedon Demetrius the
Handsome (6 /caXoy), brother of Antigonus Gonatas, to
take both heiress and inheritance.
For the next few years the history lies in the
utmost confusion ;
our authorities when they mention
the Cyrenaica only do so to contradict themselves
as well as each other, and it is impossible to get
a satisfactory account of events. What we know for
certain is that Demetrius ended by paying his atten-
tions to Apame in place of Berenice ; that he was killed
in a palace intrigue at the head of which stood the
injured princess, though still a girl;
that Berenice
eventually married Ptolemy III as had been arranged,
and was a bride shortly after her husband's accession
in 247-6 ; lastly, that two Megalopolitans, Ecdemus
and Demophanes, were summoned to adjust political
differences and reorganize the city, which they did
with signal success, an event which must have occurred
between 252 and 235. 151
It has been generally assumed that Demetrius was
murdered in 258, and Niese puts the reorganization
by the philosophers about 250, shrewdly pointing out
that Ecdemus and Demophanes were pupils of Arce-
silaus of Gyrene, who was also the friend of Demetrius
151 After 252, because it occurred after the freeing of Sicyon
in c. 252, and before 235, because Lydiades then laid down the
tyranny of Megalopolis and the city entered the Achaean league ;
this brought an amnesty for exiles, and Ecdemus and Demophanes
must have returned then, for they were the educators of Philo-
poemen.