Ptolemy (name)

During the Hellenistic period, Ptolemy I Soter, a general of Alexander the Great, founded the Ptolemaic dynasty which ruled their Kingdom in Ancient Egypt.

Ptolemaios is first attested in Homer's Iliad and is the name of an Achaean warrior, son of Piraeus, father of Eurymedon.

[5] The name Ptolemaios varied over the years from its roots in ancient Greece, appearing in different languages in various forms and spellings: The name Ptolemy spread from its Greek origins to enter other languages in Western Asia during the Hellenisation that followed the conquest of the known world by Alexander the Great.

)³ Ptolemais is formed from this name by the Greek feminine adjectival ending -i(d)s. Ptolemy commonly refers to Claudius Ptolemaeus (ca.

168 AD), a writer, geographer, mathematician, astronomer and astrologer who lived in the Alexandrine Greek culture of Roman Egypt.