Ptolemy (son of Philip)

Ptolemy ( Greek  Πτολεμαῖος ), son of Philip, was a Macedonian officer of Alexander the Great in the 4th century BC.

Ptolemy entered the battle of Granikos in 334 BC during the Asian campaign . BC as the commander (taxiarchos) of an infantry unit who, together with the following squadron of the Hetairen Reitererei of Socrates, was the first to cross the river to attack the opposing enemy. This first attack, however, was repulsed.

Thereafter, Ptolemy, son of Philip, is no longer directly reported. It is not unlikely, however, that he was identical with the officer Ptolemy, who was appointed strategos of the province of Caria after the siege of Halicarnassus and who in the autumn of 333 BC. BC defeated the Persian Orontopates in a field battle.

Ptolemy, son of Philip, is considered to be the father of that Ptolemy, who at the conference of Triparadeisos in 320 BC , along with the somatophylax Ptolemy and the officer Ptolemy, son of Seleucus . To the bodyguard of King Philip III. Arrhidaios was appointed. He is also considered a brother of Antigonus Monophthalmos and father of his nephew Ptolemaios (who would then also have been the bodyguard of Philip III) and Dioskourides . Due to the names Ptolemaios and Philippos, which were frequently used in ancient Macedonia, these family relationships cannot be assumed with absolute certainty.

See also

• Army of Alexander the Great

literature

• Waldemar Heckel : Who's who in the age of Alexander the Great. Prosopography of Alexander's empire. Blackwell, Oxford 2006, ISBN 978-1-4051-1210-9 , p. 234.
• Hans Volkmann : Ptolemaios 5). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume XXIII, 2, Stuttgart 1959, Sp. 1594.

Remarks

1. ↑ Arrian , Anabasis 1, 14, 6; 15, 1 and 16, 1.
2. ↑ Arrian, Anabasis 2, 5, 6-7. See Heckel, p. 235, Ptolemy [5] .