Ptolemy (son of Dorymenes)

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Ptolemy ( Greek  Πτολεμαῖος ), son of Dorymenes, was a governor of the Seleucids in the 2nd century BC. Chr.

Ptolemy officiated under King Antiochus IV (175-164 BC) as governor ( strategos ) in Koilesyria and Phenicia , probably as successor in office of Apollonius, son of Menestheos . In his office he exposed the embezzlement of the temple treasures of Jerusalem by the high priest Menelaus , which additionally nourished the general displeasure of the Jews against the Seleucid rule, which finally spread in 165 BC. In the revolt of the Maccabees . While the king 165 BC BC planned a campaign in the Asian East, he had commissioned his court minister Lysias with the suppression of the uprising. This in turn sent Ptolemy and the two generals Gorgias and Nikanor with 40,000 infantrymen and 7,000 cavalrymen against Judas Maccabeus , from whom they, however, in late summer 165 BC. Were defeated at Emmaus .

In the year of the defeat, Ptolemy was removed from his post and replaced by Ptolemy Makron .

literature

  • B. Bar-Kochva: Judas Maccabaeus: The Jewish Struggle against the Seleucids (2002), Appendix J, pp. 535-534.

Remarks

  1. ↑ 2 Makk 4.45-47  EU .
  2. ↑ 1 Makk 3.38-40  EU ; 1 Makk 4.1-25  EU ; Flavius ​​Josephus , Antiquitates Judaicae 12, 7, 3.
  3. ↑ According to the 2nd Book of the Maccabees ( 2 Makk 8 : 8-9  EU ), the call to fight the uprising came from the head of the Jerusalem citizenship, Philip. On his call for help, the governor Ptolemy sent the two generals Gorgias and Nikanor with 20,000 men, who were then defeated at Emmaus.
personal data
SURNAME Ptolemy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Πτολεμαῖος
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Governor of the Seleucids in Koilesyria and Phenicia
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 2nd century BC Chr.