Ptolemy (son of Andromachus)

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Ptolemy ( Greek  Πτολεμαίος ), son of Andromachos, officiated in the year 251/250 BC. As the eponymous priest of Alexander and the "sibling goddess" in Egypt .

In historical research there is disagreement about the identification of the Alexander priest with the person of Ptolemy Andromachou , who was probably an illegitimate son of King Ptolemy II . Fraser, Buraselis and Ravazzolo, among others, plead for an identity between the two people. According to them, his mother was Bilistiche, a well-known lover of Ptolemy II, but who was actually married to a man named Andromachus. This Bilistiche is said to have been identical to the daughter of Philo of the same name, who lived in 251/250 BC. BC as the "basket-bearer" (kanephoros) of the "sibling goddess " ( Arsinoë II. ), So in the same year as Ptolemy, son of Andromachos.

Werner Huss and Marc Domingo Gygax, on the other hand, separate the Alexander priest from Ptolemy Andromachou, albeit in different explanations.

literature

  • CC Edgar: Zenon Papyri. Vol. II. Cairo 1928.
  • Arnaldo Momigiano, Peter Fraser: A New Date for the Battle of Andros? A discussion. In: The Classical Quarterly. Vol. 44, 1950, pp. 107-118.
  • K. Buraselis: The Hellenistic Macedonia and the Aegean Sea: Research on the politics of Kassandros and the first three Antigonids in the Aegean Sea and in western Asia Minor. Munich 1982.
  • C. Ravazzolo: Tolomeo figlio di Tolomeo II filadelfo. In: Studi ellenistici. Vol. 8, 1996, pp. 123-142.
  • Werner Huss : Ptolemy the son. In: Journal of Papyrology and Epigraphy . Vol. 121, 1998, pp. 229-250 ( PDF ).
  • Marc Domingo Gygax: To the co-regent of Ptolemy II Philadelphos. In: Historia: magazine for ancient history. Vol. 51, 2002, pp. 49-56.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ P. Cair: Zen. Vol. II, 59289 .
  2. ↑ A. Momigiano, P. Fraser: A New Date for the Battle of Andros? A discussion. Pp. 117-118; K. Buraselis: The Hellenistic Macedonia and the Aegean Sea - ... pp. 128-134 and C. Ravazzolo: Tolomeo figlio di Tolomeo II filadelfo. Pp. 131-136.
  3. ↑ For the beloved Bilistiche see Athenaios 13, 576f and Plutarch , Moralia 753e = Amatorius 9.
  4. ^ W. Huss: Ptolemy the son. P. 243.
personal data
SURNAME Ptolemy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Πτολεμαίος
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Alexander priest
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 3rd century BC Chr.