Arsinoë of Macedonia

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Arsinoë of Macedonia ( ancient Greek Ἀρσινόη ) was the 4th century BC. Living ancestral mother of the Macedonian ruling house of Egypt , the Ptolemies . A preserved fragment from the end of the 3rd century BC. The living grammarian and biographer Satyros von Kallatis gives her family tree on his father's side, which is traced back to Dionysus and Althaia and also includes Heracles in the second generation . Historically usable it can be deduced from this that she came from a sideline of the Macedonian royal house of the Argeads as the daughter of a Meleager and great-granddaughter of Amyntas I. Many historians, such as Hans Volkmann , consider this genealogy to be credible.

Arsinoë became the wife of the Macedonian nobleman Lagos . She was the mother of Ptolemy I and probably also of Menelaus . Later reports, according to which Arsinoë was a concubine of the Macedonian king Philip II , and who was already pregnant with Ptolemy to have been married to Lagos, make Ptolemy the half-brother of Alexander the great . They were probably created against the background of the cult practiced by the Ptolemies in Egypt for Alexander, with whom they closely linked their own dynasty. The historian Arrian, on the other hand, who used the Alexander biography of Ptolemy (FGrH 138) as a source, named him several times in his works as a son of Lagos. But some historians have doubts about this paternity too.

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  1. ↑ Satyros von Kallatis, FGrH 631 F 2; see. Theocritus 17, 26.
  2. ↑ Hans Volkmann : Ptolemaios 18. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen antiquity science (RE). Volume XXIII, 2, Stuttgart 1959, Sp. 1603 f.
  3. ↑ Satyros, FGrH 631 F 2; Porphyrios , FGrH 260 F 2, 2.
  4. ↑ Pausanias 1, 6, 2; Curtius Rufus , Historiae Alexandri Magni 9, 8, 22; Aelian , fragment 285 near Suda , s. Lagos .
  5. ↑ For example Nina L. Collins: The Various Fathers of Ptolemy I. In: Mnemosyne . Vol. 50, 1997, p. 436, which Ptolemy I considers to be the son of Arsinoë from an unknown father; Arsinoë was then married to Lagos as a pregnant woman.
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SURNAME Arsinoë of Macedonia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Arsinoe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mother of Ptolemy I Soter
DATE OF BIRTH around 390 BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH around 350 BC Chr.