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Achillas
Achillas was a guardian and general of Ptolemy XIII who helped murder Pompey in 48 BC and led the Egyptian army against Julius Caesar until his death in 47 BC.
Agathoclea
Agathoclea, also transliterated Agathokleia, was a mistress of King Ptolemy IV Philopator who with her brother Agathocles dominated the Alexandrian court until a mob killed the family in 203 BC.
Agathocles (minister of Ptolemy IV)
Agathocles was a Ptolemaic courtier who served as chief minister under Ptolemy IV and then regent for the child Ptolemy V, until an Alexandrian mob killed him in 203 BC.
Aglais (musician)
Aglais (Ancient Greek Ἀγλαΐς), daughter of Megakles, was a Hellenistic trumpet player who performed at the first great procession at Alexandria and was remembered for her gluttony.
Ananias ben Onias
Ananias ben Onias (Hebrew Hananiya ben Honiyyahu) was a Jewish general in Ptolemaic Egypt, son of the high priest Onias IV, who dissuaded Cleopatra III from annexing Judea.
Apollonia (wife of Dryton)
Apollonia, also called Senmonthis, was a Greek-Egyptian woman of Pathyris in Upper Egypt who married the Cretan cavalry officer Dryton in 150 BC and is known through his family's bilingual papyrus archive.
Apollonius (dioiketes)
Apollonius was the dioiketes, chief financial official of Ptolemaic Egypt under Ptolemy II Philadelphos, serving about fifteen years until his dismissal and confiscation of property after 246 BC.
Aristomenes of Alyzia
Aristomenes of Alyzia, also known as Aristomenes of Alyzeia, was an Acarnanian Greek who served as regent of Ptolemaic Egypt for the child king Ptolemy V.
Ariston (explorer)
Ariston (Ἀρίστων) was a Greek explorer dispatched by Ptolemy II Philadelphos to investigate the Arabian coast, remembered for an altar to Poseidon Pelagios at Poseideion.
Aristonicus (eunuch)
Aristonicus was a eunuch of Ptolemy V of Egypt, raised with the king, who commanded the cavalry against the Egyptian revolt in the Delta in 185/4 BC.
Arsinoe of Macedon
Arsinoe of Macedon (Arsinoe of Macedonia) was a 4th-century BC Macedonian woman, said to have been a concubine of Philip II, wife of Lagus, and mother of Ptolemy I Soter.
Artakama
Artakama (Artacama) was a Persian noblewoman, daughter of Artabazus, married to Ptolemy, the future Ptolemy I of Egypt, at the Susa weddings of 324 BC.
Bilistiche
Bilistiche, also known as Belistiche, was a mistress of Ptolemy II Philadelphus who won two Olympic chariot victories at Olympia in 268 and 264 BC.
Callicrates of Samos
Callicrates of Samos, also known as Kallikrates, was a Greek admiral who served as supreme commander of the Ptolemaic navy for about twenty years under Ptolemy II.
Charmion
Charmion, also spelled Charmian, was one of Cleopatra VII's two attendants who died with the queen at Alexandria in 30 BC, remembered for her last words in Plutarch's account.
Cilles
Cilles was a Macedonian commander serving Ptolemy I who, after the Battle of Gaza, was surprised and captured by Demetrius Poliorcetes at Myus in 311 BC, then released with gifts.
Cineas (minister of Ptolemy VIII)
Cineas (Κινέας) was a Ptolemaic general and minister who, with Comanus, directed the government and defense of Alexandria in 169 BC during Antiochus IV's invasion of Egypt.
Cleomenes of Naucratis
Cleomenes of Naucratis, also known as Kleomenes of Naucratis, was a Greek financial administrator whom Alexander the Great made effective master of Egypt's finances by 331 BC.
Comanus (eparch)
Comanus was a court minister of Ptolemaic Egypt, one of two new ministers who took charge at Alexandria in 169 BC during the Sixth Syrian War.
Demetrius of Phalerum
Demetrius of Phalerum, also Demetrius Phalereus, was an Athenian statesman and Peripatetic philosopher, a pupil of Theophrastus, who governed Athens from 317 to 307 BC.
Didyme (mistress of Ptolemy II)
Didyme was an Egyptian mistress of Ptolemy II Philadelphus in 3rd-century-BC Alexandria, described as very beautiful and known almost solely from Ptolemy VIII's Memoirs and a possible epigram by Asclepiades.
Dionysios (son of Kephalas)
Dionysios son of Kephalas, also called Plenis, was a landholding official and royal farmer at Akoris in Ptolemaic Egypt, active about 125 to 100 BC.
Dioscurides (admiral)
Dioscurides (Greek: Διοσκουρίδης) was a naval commander in the fleet of Antigonus I Monophthalmus, active in the Aegean in 314–313 BC during the Third War of the Diadochi.
Dioscurides (Ptolemaic courtier)
Dioscurides (Greek: Διοσκουρίδης) was a court official of Ptolemaic Egypt who rose through honorific titles to become dioiketes, the central finance minister in Alexandria, serving until around 149/8 BC.
Dositheos (son of Drimylos)
Dositheos son of Drimylos was a Ptolemaic official who served as eponymous priest of Alexandria and Ptolemais, attested in a papyrus dated to year 25 of Ptolemy III.
Dryton
Dryton (Greek Δρύτων), son of Pamphilos, was a Greek cavalry officer and moneylender at Pathyris in Upper Egypt in the second century BC, known through his family archive.
Erasistratus
Erasistratus of Iulis on Ceos was a Greek physician and anatomist active in the first half of the 3rd century BC, a leading innovator of early Hellenistic medicine in Alexandria.
Eudoxus of Cyzicus
Eudoxus of Cyzicus was a Greek navigator from Cyzicus who commanded two royal trading voyages from Ptolemaic Egypt to India in the later 2nd century BC.
Eulaeus
Eulaeus (Greek: Eulaios) was a eunuch of the Ptolemaic court who, with Lenaios, governed Egypt as regent for the boy king Ptolemy VI after Cleopatra I died in 178/177 BC.
Ganymedes
Ganymedes was a eunuch at the Ptolemaic court and tutor of Arsinoe IV who took command of the Egyptian army against Julius Caesar in 48 BC.