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Claudius Ptolemy (/ˈtɒləmi/;
Ancient Gr****: Πτολεμαῖος,
Ptolemaios; Latin:
Claudius Ptolemaeus; c. 100 – 160s/170s AD) was a Greco-Roman mathematician...
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Ptolemy I
Soter (/ˈtɒləmi/; Gr****: Πτολεμαῖος Σωτήρ,
Ptolemaîos Sōtḗr, "Ptolemy the Savior"; c. 367 BC –
January 282 BC) was a
Macedonian general, historian...
- adjective.
Ptolemaios is
first attested in Homer's
Iliad and is the name of an
Achaean warrior, son of Piraeus,
father of Eurymedon. The name
Ptolemaios varied...
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Ptolemy II
Philadelphus (Ancient Gr****: Πτολεμαῖος Φιλάδελφος,
Ptolemaîos Philádelphos, "Ptolemy, sibling-lover"; 309 – 28
January 246 BC) was the pharaoh...
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Ptolemy XIV
Philopator (Ancient Gr****: Πτολεμαῖος Φιλοπάτωρ,
Ptolemaios; c. 59 – 44 BC) was a
Pharaoh of the
Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, who
reigned from...
- In
Euclidean geometry, Ptolemy's
theorem is a
relation between the four
sides and two
diagonals of a
cyclic quadrilateral (a
quadrilateral whose vertices...
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Ptolemy V
Epiphanes Eucharistus (Gr****: Πτολεμαῖος Ἐπιφανής Εὐχάριστος,
Ptolemaĩos Epiphanḗs Eukháristos "Ptolemy the Manifest, the Beneficent"; 9 October...
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Ptolemy XV
Caesar (/ˈtɒləmi/;
Ancient Gr****: Πτολεμαῖος Καῖσαρ,
Ptolemaios Kaisar; 47 BC – late
August 30 BC),
nicknamed Caesarion (Gr****: Καισαρίων, Kaisaríōn...
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Ptolemy of
Mauretania (Ancient Gr****: Πτολεμαῖος,
Ptolemaîos; Latin:
Gaius Iulius Ptolemaeus; 13 x 9 BC–AD 40) was the last
Roman client king and ruler...
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Ptolemaios Sarigiannis (Gr****: Πτολεμαίος Σαρηγιάννης, c. 1882–1958) was a Gr**** Army
officer who rose to the rank of
Major General,
holding senior staff...
