Ptolemy II Philadelphus (, Ptolemaîos Philádelphos, "Ptolemy, sibling-lover"; 309 - 28 January 246 BC) was the pharaoh and basileus of the Ptolemaic Kingdom from 284 to 246 BC. He was the son of Ptolemy I, the Macedonian general of Alexander the Great who founded the Ptolemaic Kingdom after the death of Alexander,