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Ptolemy I

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Ptolemy I
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(Biographies / Ptolemy I (?367 bc-283 bc) M, Egyptiannational of birth: Greek, POLITICS: hereditary ruler, MILITARY: general) called Ptolemy Soter. ?367-283 bc, king of Egypt (323-285 bc), a general of Alexander the Great, who obtained Egypt on Alexander's death and founded the Ptolemaic dynasty: his capital Alexandria became the centre of Greek culture
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Noun1.Ptolemy I - the king of Egypt who founded the Macedonian dynasty in EgyptPtolemy I - the king of Egypt who founded the Macedonian dynasty in Egypt; a close friend and general of Alexander the Great who took charge of Egypt after Alexander died (circa 367-285 BC)
Ptolemaic dynasty, Ptolemy - an ancient dynasty of Macedonian kings who ruled Egypt from 323 BC to 30 BC; founded by Ptolemy I and ended with Cleopatra


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1214-1294, the Franciscan monk, notes in his Opus majus that Ptolemy is the authority for dates from Nabuchonossor through Alexander the Great to Hadrian: Nam Ptolemaeus in Almagesti certificat nos de tempore a Nabugodonosor usque ad Alexandrum, et ab eo usque ad Octavianum Augustum, et ab eo usque ad Adrianum principem.
Ptolemy I, of the Greek dynasty that ruled Egypt after the Pharaohs, established the original Bibliotheca Alexandria 2,290 years ago.
Most actual Ptolemaic coins show the various Ptolemies wearing only the diadem which was assumed by Ptolemy I in 305 as a sign of his kingship (after Ptolemy assumed the diadem, Diodorus Siculus tells us in XX.
 
 
 
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