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dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">General under Alexander the Great</div> <p><b>Ptolemy</b> (<a href="/wiki/Greek_language" title="Greek language">Greek</a>: <span lang="el"><span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">Πτολεμαῖος</span></span></span>; died 333 BC) son of Seleucus from Orestis or Tymphaia,<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was one of the select officers called <a href="/wiki/Somatophylax" class="mw-redirect" title="Somatophylax">Somatophylaces</a>, or guards of the king's person; he combined with that distinguished post the command of one of the divisions of the <a href="/wiki/Phalanx_formation" class="mw-redirect" title="Phalanx formation">phalanx</a>. Ptolemy was from an upper noble family. He was lately married when he accompanied <a href="/wiki/Alexander_the_Great" title="Alexander the Great">Alexander</a> on his expedition to Asia, 334 BC, on which account he was selected by the king to command the body of <a href="/wiki/Macedon" class="mw-redirect" title="Macedon">Macedonians</a>, who were allowed to return home for the winter at the end of the first campaign. In the following spring he rejoined Alexander at <a href="/wiki/Gordium" class="mw-redirect" title="Gordium">Gordium</a>, with the troops under his command, accompanied by fresh reinforcements. At the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Issus" title="Battle of Issus">Battle of Issus</a> (333 BC) his division of the phalanx was one of those opposed to the <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek_mercenaries" title="Ancient Greek mercenaries">Greek mercenaries</a> under <a href="/wiki/Darius_III_of_Persia" class="mw-redirect" title="Darius III of Persia">Darius III</a>, and upon which the real brunt of the action consequently devolved; and he himself fell in the conflict, after displaying the utmost valour.<sup id="cite_ref-arr_1.24_29_2.8_10_curt_3.9_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-arr_1.24_29_2.8_10_curt_3.9-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ptolemy_(son_of_Seleucus)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Smith_(lexicographer)" title="William Smith (lexicographer)">Smith, William</a> (editor); <i><a href="/wiki/Dictionary_of_Greek_and_Roman_Biography_and_Mythology" title="Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology">Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology</a></i>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110605075409/http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/2898.html">"Ptolemaeus (4)"</a>, <a href="/wiki/Boston" title="Boston">Boston</a>, (1867)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ptolemy_(son_of_Seleucus)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output 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title="Ptolemy I Soter">Ptolemy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cleitus_the_Black" title="Cleitus the Black">Cleitus the Black</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antigonus_I_Monophthalmus" title="Antigonus I Monophthalmus">Antigonus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lysimachus" title="Lysimachus">Lysimachus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Menander_(general)" title="Menander (general)">Menander</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leonnatus" title="Leonnatus">Leonnatus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Laomedon_of_Mytilene" title="Laomedon of Mytilene">Laomedon of Mytilene</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neoptolemus_(general)" title="Neoptolemus (general)">Neoptolemus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Erigyius" title="Erigyius">Erigyius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aretes" title="Aretes">Aretes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ariston_of_Paionia" title="Ariston of Paionia">Ariston of Paionia</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/Infantry" 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title="Alcetas">Alcetas</a></li> <li>Amphimachus</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amyntas_(son_of_Andromenes)" title="Amyntas (son of Andromenes)">Amyntas</a></li> <li>Arcesilas</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Archon_of_Pella" title="Archon of Pella">Archon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asander" title="Asander">Asander</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cleitus_the_White" title="Cleitus the White">Cleitus the White</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nearchus" title="Nearchus">Nearchus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicanor_(son_of_Parmenion)" title="Nicanor (son of Parmenion)">Nicanor<sup>(1)</sup></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicanor_(satrap)" title="Nicanor (satrap)">Nicanor<sup>(2)</sup></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peithon" title="Peithon">Peithon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peucestas" title="Peucestas">Peucestas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philip_(satrap)" title="Philip (satrap)">Philip</a></li> <li>Philo</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philotas_(satrap)" title="Philotas (satrap)">Philotas<sup>(3)</sup></a></li> <li><a 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