A ruler of this dynasty apocryphally ordered soldiers to retrieve a statue of Pluto from an Anatolian city after he had a dream revealing its existence. After defeating the forces of this dynasty, a military leader earned the epithet Poliorcetes, meaning “the besieger.” A ruler of this dynasty sent military assistance during Demetrius the First’s siege of Rhodes. The second ruler of this dynasty, who commissioned a work of history by the writer (*) Manetho, had the epithet “Philadelphus.” The founder of this dynasty, who defeated an army led by Perdiccas during the Wars of the Diadochi, had the epithet “Soter.” For 10 points, name this dynasty founded by a bodyguard of Alexander the Great which ruled Egypt until the death of Cleopatra. ■END■
ANSWER: Ptolemaic dynasty [or House of Ptolemy; or Lagid dynasty]
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