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Ptolemy I was the son of Arsinoe of Macedon by either her husband Lagus or Philip II of Macedon, the father of Alexander. However, the latter is unlikely and may be a myth fabricated to glorify the Ptolemaic Dynasty. [4] Ptolemy was one of Alexander's most trusted companions and military officers.
Ptolemy I and other early rulers of the dynasty were not married to their relatives, the childless marriage of siblings Ptolemy II and Arsinoe II [22] being an exception. The first child-producing incestuous marriage in the Ptolemaic dynasty was that of Ptolemy IV and Arsinoe III , who were succeeded as co-pharaohs by their son Ptolemy V , born ...
Cleopatra VII ascended the Egyptian throne on 22 March 51 BC upon the death of her father, Ptolemy XII Neos Dionysos. [33] She reigned as queen "philopator" and pharaoh with various male co-regents from 51 to 30 BC. [34] The demise of the Ptolemies' power coincided with the growing dominance of the Roman Republic. With one empire after another ...
Lagus of Eordaia (Greek Λάγος, Lagos; lived 4th century BC) was a Macedonian courtier and the father of Ptolemy, the founder of the Ptolemaic dynasty.He married Arsinoe of the Argead dynasty and a concubine of Philip II, king of Macedon, who was said to have been pregnant at the time of their marriage, forming the basis of Ptolemy as the son of Philip; but it is possible that this is a ...
Ptolemy II was the son of Ptolemy I and his third wife, Berenice I.He was born on the island of Kos in 309/308 BC, during his father's invasion of the Aegean in the Fourth Diadoch War.
Ptolemaeus' father was King Orontes IV of Armenia, son of Arsames I. Ptolemaeus was the last satrap (governor) of the state of Commagene, a province in the Seleucid Empire. He served under the Syrian Greek kings Antiochus III the Great, Seleucus IV Philopator, Antiochus IV Epiphanes and Antiochus V Eupator.
Ptolemy was the eldest son of Ptolemy I Soter, King of Egypt, and his first wife Eurydice, daughter of Antipater, regent of Macedon. His father was a general of Alexander the Great, whom he succeeded, and founded the Ptolemaic dynasty. [4] He was probably born in 319 BC, soon after his parents' marriage, being the first of their six children.
Philip was the third son [1] born to Lysimachus and Arsinoe II.Philip had two older full brothers: Ptolemy I Epigone [2] [3] [4] and Lysimachus. [5]His father Lysimachus was one of the Diadochi of Alexander the Great who was King of Thrace, Asia Minor and Macedonia. [6]