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4 days ago · Built by Sostratus of Cnidus, perhaps for Ptolemy I Soter, it was finished during the reign of Soter’s son Ptolemy II of Egypt in about 280 bce. The lighthouse stood on the island of Pharos in the harbour of Alexandria and is said to have been more than 350 feet (110 metres) high; the only taller man-made structures at the time would have ...
2 days ago · Cleopatra "father-loving goddess"; [note 6] 70/69 BC – 10 August 30 BC) was Queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt from 51 to 30 BC, and its last active ruler. [note 7] A member of the Ptolemaic dynasty, she was a descendant of its founder Ptolemy I Soter, a Macedonian Greek general and companion of Alexander the Great. [note 8] After the death...
2 days ago · Ptolemy I Soter, a former general and then current satrap of Egypt, was the first to challenge the new system, which eventually led to the demise of Perdiccas. Ptolemy's revolt created a new subdivision of the empire with the Partition of Triparadisus in 320 BC.
4 days ago · Cleopatra was a direct descendant of Ptolemy I Soter, who after Alexander’s death became ruler of Egypt, calling himself both a Hellenistic king (basileius) and a Pharaoh. She was born in 69 BCE to Ptolemy XII Auletes. While her mother identity is uncertain, it is widely believed that she was Cleopatra Tryphaena, Ptolemy’s wife.
2 days ago · At this point, the joint kingship had only been in place for a little over a year, but the compromise that had brought the kings into Perdiccas’ care was beginning to unravel as people, particularly the generals Antigonus in western Turkey and Ptolemy I Soter in Egypt, began to question whether the decrees Perdiccas was issuing in the names ...
3 days ago · Ptolemy’s Move to Seize the Body. One of the most ambitious of Alexander’s generals was Ptolemy (later called Ptolemy I Soter), who had served as a close friend and bodyguard to Alexander. Ptolemy saw an opportunity to solidify his power by seizing Alexander’s body.
5 days ago · Caesarion (born June 47 bce —died 30 bce) was the king of Egypt (reigned 44–30 bce ), son of Julius Caesar and Cleopatra VII. Ptolemy was his mother’s co-ruler, killed by Octavian, later the emperor Augustus, after Cleopatra’s death in 30.
