Lagos (ancestor of the Ptolemies)
Lagos ( Greek Λαγός ; * 4th century BC) was the progenitor of the Macedonian royal house of Egypt, the Ptolemies . This family is often called "Lagiden" after him.
Lagos was married to Arsinoë , who was probably related to the Macedonian royal house of the Argeadians . Their children together were Ptolemy I and Menelaus . Later reports, according to which Arsinoë was a concubine of the Macedonian king Philip II and was already pregnant with Lagos, arose against the background of the cult of Alexander practiced by the Ptolemies in Egypt , with which they closely linked their own dynasty. The poet Theokritos probably also referred to this legend when he announced in his “Poem of Praise to Ptolemy ” that the Ptolemies were descended from Herakles , from whom the Argeads were also derived. The historian Arrian, on the other hand, who used the Alexander biography of the Egyptian king Ptolemaios I (FrGrHist 138) as a source, named him several times in his works as a son of Lagos.
The occasional claim that Lagos was also married to Antigone , the niece of Antipater , and was thus the father of Berenike , is based on a mistranslation of Theokritos' poem.
Remarks
- ↑ Satyros von Kallatis , FrGrHist 631 F11; Porphyrios , FrGrHist 260 F2 §2.
- ↑ Pausanias 1, 6, 2; Quintus Curtius Rufus Story of Alexander the Great 9, 8, 22.
- ^ Theocritus 17.
- ^ Scholia ad Theocritum (ed. Thomas Gaisford, Oxford, 1820).
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SURNAME | Lagos |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ancestor of the Egyptian royal house of the Ptolemies |
DATE OF BIRTH | 4th century BC Chr. |
DATE OF DEATH | 4th century BC Chr. |