Arsinoe of Macedonia

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Arsinoe (in Greek Aρσινόη; lived 4th century BC) was the mother of Ptolemy I Soter (323–283 BC), king of Egypt, was originally a concubine of Philip II, king of Macedon, and it is said she was given by Philip to Lagus, a Macedonian, while she was pregnant with Ptolemy. Hence, if we can believe our sources, Ptolemy was regarded by the Macedonians as the son of Philip.¹

References

Smith, William (editor); Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, ["Arsinoe (1)"], Boston, (1867)

Notes

¹ Pausanias, Description of Greece, [i. 6]; Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni, [ix. 8]; Suda, s.v. ["Lagos"]

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