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Ptolemy Macron
Ptolemy Macron was a Ptolemaic official who governed Cyprus under Ptolemy VI Philometor, deserted to Antiochus IV Epiphanes, was rewarded with Coele-Syria and Phoenicia, and died by poison.
Ptolemy, son of Agesarchos
Ptolemy, son of Agesarchos (Greek: Πτολεμαῖος ὁ Ἀγησάρχου) was a Ptolemaic official of Arcadian origin who served as strategos, or governor, of Cyprus in the 2nd century BC.
Scopas of Aetolia
Scopas of Aetolia (Greek: Σκόπας) was an Aetolian general who served the Aetolian League, then commanded Ptolemaic Egypt's forces in the Fifth Syrian War, dying by execution in Alexandria in 196 BC.
Seleucus (son of Bithys)
Seleucus, son of Bithys, was a Ptolemaic official of probable Rhodian origin who governed Cyprus as general, admiral, and high priest under Ptolemy VIII, known from four honorific inscriptions dated 142–131 BC.
Serapion (strategos)
Serapion (Σεραπίων) was the strategos, the military governor and admiral, of Cyprus serving Cleopatra VII of Egypt, recorded in 43 BC when he supported Cassius against Dolabella without her consent.
Simmias (Ptolemaic officer)
Simmias was a Greek officer sent by Ptolemy III Euergetes to explore the Red Sea and Ethiopian coasts in the 3rd century BC, whose reports informed Agatharchides.
Sosibius (minister)
Sosibius (Sosibios) was a Ptolemaic courtier who directed internal and external policy for Ptolemy III and IV. He was a key figure in the Fourth Syrian War.
Sosibius (son of Sosibius)
Sosibius, son of the powerful minister Sosibius, was a Ptolemaic courtier and body-guard of the child king Ptolemy V who helped overthrow Agathocles and was forced from office by Tlepolemus.
Sostratus of Cnidus
Sostratus of Cnidus (Sostratos of Knidos), son of Dexiphanes, was a Greek architect and diplomat from Cnidus who served the first Ptolemies and is credited with the Pharos of Alexandria.
Sotades
Sotades of Maronea was a Greek satirical poet at the Alexandrian court of Ptolemy II in the 3rd century BC, namesake of the Sotadean meter.
Stratonice of Libya
Stratonice was a mistress of Ptolemy II Philadelphus, the second ruler of Ptolemaic Egypt, known only from an ancient list and a mausoleum at Eleusis near Alexandria.
Taimhotep
Taimhotep, also written Tjaiemhotep, was an Egyptian priestess of Ptah and sistrum player at Memphis, wife of high priest Pasherenptah III, known from her funerary stela.
Thaïs
Thaïs (Θαΐς) was a celebrated Athenian hetaira who accompanied Alexander the Great and later partnered Ptolemy I, known for the Persepolis fire story of 330 BC and her three children.
Theodorus, son of Seleucus
Theodorus, son of Seleucus, was a Ptolemaic official who served as governor, admiral, and chief priest of Cyprus, flourishing between about 142 and 118 BC under Ptolemy VIII.
Theodotus of Chios
Theodotus of Chios (Theodotos of Chios) was a Greek rhetorician who taught Ptolemy XIII and in 48 BC first proposed the murder of Pompey, fleeing to Egypt after Pharsalus.
Theoxena of Egypt
Theoxena (Greek Θέοξενα) was a Syracusan royal woman of the early 3rd century BC, daughter of King Agathocles of Syracuse, banished by Ptolemy II to the Thebaid.
Theoxena of Syracuse
Theoxena of Syracuse (Greek Θεοξένα) was a Macedonian noblewoman, probably a daughter of Berenice I and stepdaughter of Ptolemy I, who married Agathocles, ruler of Syracuse, around 300 BC.
Tlepolemus (regent)
Tlepolemus (Greek Tlepolemos) was a Ptolemaic general and strategos of Pelusium who served as chief minister and regent for the child king Ptolemy V from 203 or 202 BC until 202 or 201 BC.