(οἱ Πτολεμαϊκοὶ δυναστεῖς/hoi Ptolemaïkoì dynasteîs, Str. 2,5,12).
Hellenistic dynasty which established itself in Egypt after the death of Alexander [4] the Great and ruled there until Egypt was instituted as a Roman province by Augustus; the dynasty is named after its founder, Ptolemaeus [1] I as 'Ptolemies' or after his father Lagus [1] as 'Lagidae' (Λαγίδαι/Lagídai).
The ambitions of the first P. were not limited to Egypt, but extended to the whole of Alexander's empire (cf. Ptolemaeus [6] III; Hellenistic states) and large parts of the Aegean (Aegean Sea); the…