Pelops (son of Alexandros)

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Pelops ( Greek  Πέλοψ ), son of Alexandros, was in the 3rd century BC. An officer of the Hellenistic Ptolemaic dynasty in Egypt .

Pelops came from Macedonia , rose in Egypt to a "friend" ( philos ) of the king Ptolemaios II and served him as a troop commander on Samos . Here he was given honorary citizenship by the city of Samos . In the 22nd year of Ptolemy II's reign (264/263 BC) Pelops officiated as priest of Alexander and the " brother and sister gods " .

Pelops had a younger brother named Taurinos who was born in 260/259 BC. Also officiated as Alexander priest. Pelops' son of the same name also served the Ptolemies.

The Pelops family:

 
 
 Alexandros
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Pelops Alexander priest
 
 Taurinos Alexander priest
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Pelops
governor in Cyprus
 
 Myrsine
daughter of hyperbassas
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Ptolemy
 
 

literature

  • TB Mitford: Ptolemy Son of Pelops. In: The Journal of Egyptian Archeology. Volume 46, 1960, pp. 109-111 (on the inscribed evidence).
  • Willy Peremans, Edmond Van't Dack: Prosopographia Ptolemaica . Band 3: Le clergé, le notary, les tribunaux: n os 4984-8040 (= . Studia Hellenistica band 11). Publications Universitaires de Louvain, Löwen 1956, pp. 33 f., No. 5227 (on the papyrological evidence).
  • Willy Clarysse: Prosopographia Ptolemaica. Volume 9: Addenda et Corrigenda au Volume III (1956) (= Studia Hellenistica. Volume 25). Publications Universitaires de Louvain, Löwen 1981, p. 32, No. 5227 (on the papyrological evidence).

Remarks

  1. ↑ Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum (SEG) No. 1, p. 364: Inscription from Samos, dated to the year 281 BC. BC, see Mitford, p. 110.
  2. ^ Papyrus Hibeh I, 92.
personal data
SURNAME Pelops
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Πέλοψ
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Commander of the Ptolemies on Samos and priest of Alexander
DATE OF BIRTH 4th century BC BC or 3rd century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 3rd century BC Chr.