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	Ptolemy I of Egypt
		Ptolemy I (367 - 283 BC reigned 305 - 283 BC), founder of the dynasty of the same name, son of Lagus, a Macedonian nobleman of Eordaea, was one of Alexander the Great's most trusted generals, and among the seven "body-guards" attached to his person.
		In 312 BC Ptolemy, with Seleucus, the fugitive satrap of Babylonia, invaded Palestine and beat Demetrius, the son of Antigonus, in the great battle of Gaza.
		Ptolemy I Soter died in 283 BC at the age of 84.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/pt/Ptolemy_I.html (874 words)

	Ptolemy I of Egypt (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ptolemy I (367–283 BC; reigned 305–283), founder of the Ptolemaic dynasty, son of Lagus, a Macedonian nobleman of Eordaea, was one of Alexander the Great's most trusted generals, and among the seven "body-guards" attached to his person.
		Henceforth, Ptolemy seems to have mingled as little as possible in the broils of Asia Minor and Greece; his possessions in Greece he did not retain, but Cyprus he re-conquered in 295/294.
		Ptolemy I Soter died in 283 at the age of 84.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/p/pt/ptolemy_i_of_egypt.html (910 words)

	Ptolemy - Crystalinks
		Ptolemy set up a public inscription at Canopus in Egypt in 147/148 C.E. The late N. Hamilton found that the version of Ptolemy's models set out in the Canopic Inscription was earlier than the version in Almagest.
		Latitude was measured from the equator, as it is today, but Ptolemy preferred to express it as the length of the longest day rather than degrees of arc (the length of the midsummer day increases from 12h to 24h as you go from the equator to the polar circle).
		Ptolemy was concerned to defend astrology by defining its limits, compiling astrological data that he believed was reliable and dismissing practices (such as considering the numerological significance of names) that he believed to be without sound basis.
	www.crystalinks.com /ptolemy.html (1568 words)

	Ptolemy's Egypt
		Egypt was ruled from Alexandria by Ptolemy's descendants until the death of Cleopatra VII in 30 BC.
		Ptolemy and his descendants adopted Egyptian royal trappings and added Egypt's religion to their own, worshipping the gods of Eternity and building temples to them, and even being mummified and buried in sarcophagi covered with hieroglyphs.
		Ptolemy I, though respectful as he was of the Egyptian culture, nevertheless believed the Greek culture to be superior in many respects, and thus the preservation of it in Alexandria was of utmost importance.
	www.chn-net.com /timeline/ptolemy_study.html (1780 words)

	New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, Vol. IX: Petri - Reuchlin
		Ptolemy I. Soter, also known as Ptolemy Lagus (whence comes the name Lagidæ for the dynasty), was the son of Lagos and Arsinoe, was born about 367, and was in his youth a playfellow of Alexander.
		Ptolemy's disposition, shown both to those of Hebrew race and to the Egyptians, was gentle and kind, his government was firm and tactful, while his aim was the welfare of the people in material, artistic, scientific, and literary directions.
		A consequence of Ptolemy's conquest was the Hellenization of Philadelphia, the old Rabbath Ammon, Ptolemais (Acre), and Philoteria on the Sea of Galilee.
	www.ccel.org /ccel/schaff/encyc09.ptolemy.html?bcb=0 (4150 words)

	Egypt: Rulers, Kings and Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt: Cleopatra VII & Ptolemy XIII
		In the springtime of 51 BC, Ptolemy Auletes died and left his kingdom in his will to his eighteen year old daughter, Cleopatra, and her younger brother Ptolemy XIII who was twelve at the time.
		Cleopatra was born in 69 BC in Alexandria, Egypt.
		Ptolemy XV (Caesarion) was made the co-ruler with his mother and was called the King of Kings.
	www.touregypt.net /cleopatr.htm (2922 words)

	Ptolemy I Soter 367-283 BC Macedonian Greek ruler of Egypt
		Ptolemy I Soter (367 BC—283 BC) was a Macedonian Greek who became the ruler of Egypt (323 BC - 283 BC) and founder of the Ptolemaic dynasty.
		Ptolemy was consistent in his policy of securing a power base, while never succumbing to the temptation of risking all to succeed Alexander[3].
		In 312, Ptolemy and Seleucus, the fugitive satrap of Babylonia, both invaded Syria, and defeated Demetrius Poliorcetes ("sieger of cities"), the son of Antigonus, in the Battle of Gaza.
	www.realtreasures.com /ptolemy_king_of_egypt.htm (1227 words)

	Ptolemy I Soter
		Ptolemy I Soter (367-282): friend and biographer of the Macedonian conqueror Alexander the Great, after his death king of Egypt, founder of the the Ptolemaic dynasty, one of the Diadochi.
		Ptolemy was born in 367 as the son of a Macedonian nobleman named Lagus and a woman named Arsinoe, who may or may not have belonged to a minor branch of the Macedonian dynasty.
		Ptolemy's whereabouts in the initial phase of the Sogdian war are not known, but in 328, he commanded one of five armies that forced the Sogdian population to give up their ancient way of life and settle in cities.
	www.livius.org /ps-pz/ptolemies/ptolemy_i_soter.htm (1067 words)

	Wikinfo \| Ptolemy (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ptolemy was the author of the astronomical treatise which is now known as the Almagest (in Greek Hè Megalè Syntaxis, "The Great Treatise").
		Ptolemy formulated a geocentric model (see: Ptolemaic system) of the solar system which remained the generally accepted model in the Western and Arab worlds until it was superseded by the heliocentric solar system of Copernicus.
		Ptolemy was a disciple of the Gnostic Valentinus, known to us for writing a letter to a wealthy Christian lady named Flora, trying to convert her to the Valentinian faith.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Ptolemy (981 words)

	Egypt: Rulers, Kings and Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt: Ptolemy II Philadelphus
		Egypt: Rulers, Kings and Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt: Ptolemy II Philadelphus
		Ptolemy II Philadelphus, which means 'Brother/Sister-loving', was the second ruler of the Ptolemaic Dynasty.
		According to the "Letter of Aristeas", Ptolemy II requested 70 Jewish scholars come from Jerusalem to translate the Pentateuch into a Greek version to be placed into the Great Library collection.
	www.touregypt.net /32dyn02.htm (123 words)

	Ptolemy I - Macedonian King of Egypt
		One of his first actions to this end was to divert to Egypt the cortege bearing the body of Alexander, which the army had intended to be buried in Macedonia.
		Ptolemy justified his acquisition of this precious relic, which was first interred with great magnificence at Memphis and subsequently at Alexandria, on the grounds that Alexander had wished to be buried at the oracle of Ammon.
		Ptolemy took no part in the battle of Ipsus, and hence received little in the subsequent division of the spoils, but he arranged dynastic alliances by marrying his daughters, Arsinoe to Lysimachus and Lysandra to Cassander's son Alexander, and his step-daughter Antigone to Pyrrhus of Epirus.
	www.ancientmacedonia.com /PtolemyI.html (315 words)

	Ptolemy I
		One of his first actions to this end was to divert to Egypt the cortege bearing the body of Alexander, which the army had intended to be buried in Macedonia.
		Ptolemy justified his acquisition of this precious relic, which was first interred with great magnificence at Memphis and subsequently at Alexandria, on the grounds that Alexander had wished to be buried at the oracle of Ammon.
		Ptolemy took no part in the battle of Ipsus, and hence received little in the subsequent division of the spoils, but he arranged dynastic alliances by marrying his daughters, Arsinoe to Lysimachus and Lysandra to Cassander's son Alexander, and his step-daughter Antigone to Pyrrhus of Epirus.
	www.historyofmacedonia.org /AncientMacedonia/PtolemyI.html (398 words)

	Ptolemy I - WCD (Wiki Classical Dictionary) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The rumour that Ptolemy was an illegitimate son of Philip II almost certainly appeared only after 323 BC, when the Diadochi vied with each other to produce a basis for their right to rule the fragmenting empire.
		Ptolemy, however, had to wait until 330 BC when, in the aftermath of the Philotas Affair, he was promoted to Alexander’s personal bodyguard (A 3.6.5-6; 3.27.5).
		Ptolemy is credited with being in the town of the Mallians, as one of those who defended Alexander’s wounded body until the rest of the army gained entry to the town—but this story appears in the Vulgate, while Ptolemy’s own history denies it (C 9.5.20-21; Itin.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /wcd/Ptolemy_I (1276 words)

	Ptolemy
		Ptolemy’s observations are preserved in a 13 part work called the Mathematike Syntaxis, of Mathematical Composition.
		Ptolemy used three mathematical constructions, the eccentric, epicycle, and equant, to account for the movements of the planets.
		The historians of science said that the figures Ptolemy quoted were the ones who agreed the best with his theory out of a larger body of observers.
	library.thinkquest.org /29033/history/ptolemy.htm (857 words)

	Ptolemy and Egypt
		Ptolemy had been one of the most capable of the generals throughout the campaign in Asia and India.
		Produce from Ethiopia, Africa, and Arabia came through Egypt and was carried by vessels from the Alexandrian harbor to the towns of the Mediterranean coast and the islands of the Aegean Sea.
		Ptolemy did not interfere with the religious beliefs and customs of the Egyptians; as in India, these had become too deeply intertwined with the lives and traditions of the nation.
	www.hackneys.com /alex_web/pages/Ptolemy.htm (1132 words)

	Egypt Site Map
		The Osirian Temple of Taharqa at Karnak in Egypt
		The Tomb of Mehu at Saqqara in Egypt
		Osiris Hek-Djet, Temple of at Karnak in Luxor, Egypt
	touregypt.net /sitemap.htm (3679 words)

	Ptolemy V Epiphanes, The Fifth King of Egypt's Ptolemaic Period
		The sons became Ptolemy VI and perhaps Potlemy VIII, and the daughter was presumably Cleopatra II.
		It is believed that Ptolemy V was no doubt actually referring to himself in the guise of Djoser, as he coped with the combined effects of famine and the revolt of the successors of the Meroitic king Ergamenes in southern Egypt.
		Ptolemy V was presumably buried in Alexandria, though his tomb, like all the other Ptolemies, has never been discovered.
	www.touregypt.net /featurestories/ptolemyv.htm (1087 words)

	Ancient Egyptian Culture
		The events that changed the nature of Egypt were not the Persian conquest but rather the war between Persia (the rulers of Egypt) and the united Greek city-states.
		The throne of Egypt fell to Ptolemy I, the son of Lagus.
		Ptolemy then became the pharaoh, Ptolemy I. By so doing, he set the name standard for the 32nd Dynasty which turned out to be the last of Egypt’s great dynasties.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/prehistory/egypt/hieroglyphics/rosettastone.html (1684 words)

	Ptolemy I - Alexander The Great - General of Alexander - Founder of the Great Library of Alexandria - Ptolemy (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ptolemy had Alexander's body brought for burial to Egypt, where it was permanently interred at the city Alexander had founded and named after himself.
		Ptolemy established his capital at Alexandria where he founded a museum and started collecting books for a great library, which was to become the centre for scientific research and the best collection of Greek and Roman papyri in the world.
		Ptolemy also initiated the building of the lighthouse off the coast of Alexandria on the island of Pharos.
	www.alexander-the-great.co.uk /ptolemy.htm (255 words)

	Ptolemy
		Under Ptolemy IV, an extensive series of oktadrachms was struck posthumously for Ptolemy III, portraying him with the divine attributes of Helios (the radiate diadem), Zeus (the aegis), and Poseidon (the trident, the middle prong modified with the addition of the Egyptian lotus tip).
		Ptolemy VII, Neos Philopater, 145 to 144 BCE
		Ptolemy XII, Neos Dionysos, 80 to 58 and 55 to 51 BCE
	members.verizon.net /vze3xycv/RulersCoins/ptolemyPic.htm (1123 words)

	Ptolemy 12 Neos Dionysios
		Ptolemy was one of the last kings of the Ptolemaic dynasty, and one of the weak rulers of this dynasty who did not manage to hold control over Egypt without foreign help.
		From 58 until 55 he was exiled by unsatisfied Egyptians, and did not return to his position as king of Egypt until he got help from his aids in Rome.
		Ptolemy was the father of Cleopatra 7 Philopator.
	lexicorient.com /e.o/ptolemy_12.htm (117 words)

	Famous Astronomers: Claudius Ptolemy (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Claudius Ptolemy (AD 100?-170?) was probably one of the most famous astronomers and mathematicians, even though most of his theories were later proved wrong or incorrect.
		Ptolemy's most famous work, Almagest, contained geometric theory which mathematically explained the motions and positions of planets, sun, and the moon against stars that did not move.
		At first he began to accept that the earth was at the center of the universe, but later studying, he began to believe that the earth and planets movied in cirlces around much larger objects.
	library.thinkquest.org /23830/ptolemy.htm (219 words)

	Ptolemy II Philadelphus
		Two or three years of war left Egypt the dominant naval power of the eastern Mediterranean; the Ptolemaic sphere of power extended over the Cyclades to Samothrace, and the harbours and coast towns of Cilicia Trachea ("Rough Cilicia"), Pamphylia, Lycia and Caria were largely in Ptolemy's hands.
		Ptolemy's first wife, Arsinoë I, daughter of Lysimachus, was the mother of his legitimate children.
		Ptolemy himself was eager to increase the library and to patronize scientific research.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Bios/PtolemyIIPhiladelphus.html (555 words)

	Ptolemy
		Ptolemy is a collection of programs which act together to provide automated reduction of images, including photometry and astrometry, data validation, and incorporation of the resulting measurements in a photometry database organized by star position on the sky.
		Second, Ptolemy I of Egypt (367-283 BC), the founder of the Library of Alexandria, personifies the ideals of the collection and organization of large quantities of information.
		Ptolemy is only responsible for analysing individual images and adding their results to the photometry database.
	www.cfht.hawaii.edu /Instruments/Elixir/ptolemy.html (1677 words)

	THE PTOLEMAIC PERIOD
		Ptolemy, a Macedonian and one of Alexander the Great's generals, was appointed satrap (a Persian title for the ruler of Egypt) after Alexander's death in 323 BC.
		Whilst Ptolemy I and Cleopatra VII are perhaps the best-known rulers, most of the Ptolemaic kings and queens emerge as distinctive individuals.
		Ptolemy I Soter I (ruled 305-285 BC) was the founder of the Ptolemaic line, and he took the Egyptian throne after the death of Alexander IV.
	www.egyptologyonline.com /ptolemies.htm (1107 words)

	PTOLEMY GREEK COIN
		Ptolemy II was the son of Ptolemy I and heir to the Greek rule of Egypt.
		In 305 BC he declared himself King Ptolemy I, known as "Soter" (saviour) and made the city of Alexandria Egypt's capital, bringing Alexander's body with him to be buried in the city, reuniting the famed conqueror with the city that bore his name.
		Ptolemy decided from the beginning of his reign that Alexandria would not just be another port capital, but the home of a new age in Greek science and art.
	www.johnbmcnamara.com /cpg003.htm (668 words)

	Ptolemy III (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ptolemy IV, which is why the latter was called Philopator, but this seems unlikely, since Philopator was his official title, and since Polybius' account, which is certainly hostile to Ptolemy IV, does not accuse him of this crime.
		Ptolemy II (ii) several of the epistates named in these documents are attested in both high numbered and low numbered years, e.g.
		While Berenice II is not explicitly named as their mother she is the only option known to us, and the presence of these two sons in the exedra in association with her tends to support this view.
	www.tyndale.cam.ac.uk /Egypt/ptolemies/ptolemy_iii.htm (3548 words)

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