Ptolemy

Ptolemy (Πτολεμαῖος) or Ptolemy can refer to:

Early Greek rulers and generals

• Ptolemy of ThebesXIIa. C.) - mythical ruler of the ancient Greek city of Thebes.
• Ptolemy of Aloro (rule 368-365 BC) - regent of Macedonia.
• Ptolomeo (somatophylax) (death in 334 BC) - Macedonian and general bodyguards of Alexander the Great.
• Ptolomeo (son of Seleuco) (death in 333 B.C.) - Macedonian and general bodyguard of Alexander the Great.
• Ptolemy (son of Philip)IVa. C.) - Macedonian officer of Alexander the Great.
• Ptolomeo (general) (death in 309 B.C.) - general Macedonian, nephew of Antigone I Monóftalmos.
• Ptolemy (son of Pirro) (295-272 BC) - son of King Pirro of Epiro.
• Ptolemy of Epiro (248-235 BC) - King of Epiro.

Ptolemaic Dynasty

Of Macedonian origin, he ruled Hellenistic Egypt for nearly 300 years, from 305 B.C. C. until 30 a. C. All the kings of this dynasty were called Ptolemy:

• Ptolomeo I Soter - General Macedonian of Alexander the Great
• Ptolomeo II Filadelfo
• Ptolomeo III Evergetes
• Ptolemy IV
• Ptolomeo V Epiphanes
• Ptolomeo VI Filométor
• Ptolemy VII Neo Filopator
• Ptolemy VIII Fiscon
• Ptolemy IX
• Ptolomeo X Alejandro I
• Ptolemy XI Alexander II
• Ptolemy XII Auletes
• Ptolemy XIII Theos Filopator
• Ptolemy XIV Theos Filopator II
• Ptolemy XV Cesarion
• Ptolomeo XVI Filadelfo Antonio

Legacy of Ptolemy I Soter

• Ptolemaic Dynasty: Egyptian ruling dynasty founded by Ptolemy I Soter.
• Ptolemaic Kingdom: kingdom founded by Ptolemy I Soter.
• Ptolemais/Ptolemaida: several places and people named after members of the ptolemaic dynasty.

Descendants

There were several members of the Ptolemaic dynasty who did not become rulers of Egypt. Some of them became rulers of other kingdoms.

• Ptolomeo Keraunos (death in 279 BC), the oldest son of Ptolomeo I. In time he became king of Macedonia.
• Ptolomeo AndromachouIIIa. C.), illegitimate son of Ptolemy II.
• Ptolomeo Epigonos (299 B.C.-240 B.C.), co-governant with Ptolomeo II, of which he was a nephew and adopted son, later deposed.
• Ptolomeo Eupator, co-governant with Ptolomeo VI; probably his son.
• Telmessos Ptolemy (centuryIIIa. C.-centuryIIa. C.), grandson of Ptolomeo I.
• Ptolomeo Apion (death in 96 BC), son of Ptolemy VIII. Made king of Cirenaica. He left Cirenaica in Rome for inheritance.
• Ptolemy of Cyprus (death in 58 BC), son of Ptolemy IX. Probable king of Cyprus.
• Ptolomeo Filadelfo (son of Cleopatra) (born in 36 BC), son of the Roman general Marco Antonio and of the Egyptian queen Cleopatra VII.
• Ptolomeo de Mauritania (reinó 21-40 d. C.), grandson of Cleopatra VII. King of Mauritania and ally of Rome.

Claudius Ptolemy

Greco-Egyptian writer, geographer, mathematician, astronomer and astrologer (c. 90 – c. 168);

Legacy of Claudius Ptolemy

• (4001) Ptolemy: asteroid.
• Ptolemaic system: astronomical vision of the world as described by Ptolemy.
• Ptolemy (moon crater): crater on the Moon.
• Ptolomeo (Martian crater): crater in Mars.
• Ptolemy cluster: Star cluster now called Messier 7 described by Ptolemy.
• Ptolomeo Project: computer project that began in the 1980s at the University of California, Berkeley, United States.
• Ptolemy Theorem: mathematical theorem described by Ptolemy.
• Ptolomeo Mapmundi: map of the ancient world as described by Ptolomeo.

Other people

• Ptolomeo Macron (ca. 170 B.C.), governor of Coele-Siria and Fenicia.
• Ptolomeo (son of Dorymenes) (ca. 166 B.C.), a soldier in the Seleucid Empire under Lysias.
• Ptolomeo de Commagene (d. Ca. 130 B.C.), satrap and then the first king of Commagene.
• Ptolomeo (son of Abubus), governor of Jericho (ca. 130 B.C.) in the First Book of the Maccabees; instigated the death of simon Maccabees; and for whom Dante appointed the section of Hell reserved for traitors to the guests ('Ptolemaea').
• Ptolomeo (son of Menneo) (the rule ended around 40 BC), governor of the Abilene Bible, a district of the disputed region of Coele-Syria.
• Ptolomeo (Acts of Peter), a character of the Acts of Peter, who was a rich man trying to marry the daughter of Saint Peter (d. Ca. 68 AD).
• Ptolomeo Queno (sixteenth century)IId. C.), a grammar who lived in the Greek Alexandrian culture of Roman Egypt.
• Ptolomeo and Lucio (m. ca. 165 AD), Christian martyrs.
• Ptolemy (gnostic) (ca. 180 AD), a religious philosopher who was active in Roman Italy and in Galia.
• Ptolomeo-el-Garib (ca. 300 d.C.), a peripathetic pinacograph whose life of Aristotle survives in the Arabic translation.
• Ptolemaeus Secundus, a Latin nickname for Ibn al-Haytham (ca. 965-ca. 1040)
• Ptolomeo I de Tusculum (d.1126), a count of Tusculum that affirmed the descent of his family from the Roman Julys.
• Ptolemy II of Tusculum (d.1153), a count of Tusculum who married Bertha, daughter of Henry V, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
• Tolomeo da Lucca (ca. 1227-ca. 1327), also known as Bartolomé de Lucca, a historian and Dominican.
• Bernardo Tolomei (1272-1348), founder of the Olivetana Romana.
• Franciscus Ptolemaeus or Francesco Tolomei, 17. Erudito Italian century, author of Vetustalia seu Vetustatis admiranda, (1664). Rome: Ignatius of Lazaris (Catholic Religious Order)
• Francesco Tolomei (1762-1831), Italian writer, author of a Guide to Pistoia (1821).
• John the Baptist Tolomei (1653-1726), Jesuit theologian and cardinal of the Catholic Church.

• Ptolomeo Tompkins (born in 1962) - American author.

• Ptolomeo Dean (born in 1968) - British architect, author and television consultant.

• Ptolemy Slocum (1975) - American actor.
• Barry Ptolomeo (born in 1969) - American film director and producer.

• Ptolomeo de Luca(Luca, 1236-Venice, 1327) writer, theologian and Italian Catholic bishop.

Others

• Ptolomeo QuenoGreek grammar;
• Ptolomeodisciple of the Vatican Gnostic;
• Ptolemy (son of Abobi), son of Abobi, ruler of Jericho;

As an adjective

In its adjectival form, we use ptolemaico/a or tolemaico/a (or also ptolemaico/a or tolomeico/ a), to refer to Claudio Ptolemy or his astronomical system and is used in expressions such as Ptolemaic or Ptolemy conception of the world (geocentric), in contrast to the Copernican (heliocentric) conception.

Furthermore

• Tolomeo (opening)Georg Friedrich Händel of 1728.
• Canon of Ptolomeo.