Epigonos biography definition

3rd century BCE Greek prince, son of the Diadochi Lysamachus

Ptolemy Epigonos^[1] (Greek: Πτολεμαίος ὁ ΈπίγονοςPtolemaios Epigonos, Epigonos i.e. the heir,^[2] / BC^[3] – February BC^[4]) was a Greek Prince from Asia Minor who was of Macedonian and Thessalian descent.

Family background

Ptolemy was the first son^[5] born to Lysimachus and Arsinoe II. Ptolemy had two younger full-blooded brothers: Lysimachus^[5] and Philip.^[5]

His father Lysimachus, one of the Diadochi of Alexander the Great, was King of Thrace, Asia Minor and Macedonia.^[6] His paternal grandfather was Agathocles of Pella,^[6] a nobleman who was a contemporary to King Philip II of Macedon and his paternal grandmother was an unnamed woman perhaps named Arsinoe.

From his father's previous marriages and from an Odrysian concubine, Ptolemy had two older paternal half-brothers: Agathocles,^[7]Ale