Ptolemy_(King_of_Thebes)

Ptolemy of Thebes

Ptolemy of Thebes

Add article description

In Greek mythology, Ptolemy or Ptolomeus[1] (/ˈtɒləmi/;Ancient Greek: Πτολεμαῖος) was an ancestral ruler of Thebes, in ancient Greece living in the 12th century BCE. His father was Damasichthon; his son, Xanthus.[2] Since the Homeric root to Ptolemy includes no "T", the name is reconstructed as Polemy.[3]

More information Regnal titles ...

Notes

  1. [1]
    Osborne, T. (1747). An Universal History: The Ancient Part, Volume 6 (Google Books). p. 192. Retrieved 28 February 2020.
  2. [2]
    Frazer, J. G. (1913). Pausanias's Description of Greece: Vol 1, Translation (Google Books). p. 452. Retrieved 28 February 2020.
  3. [3]
    The change from polemos to ptolemos is an example of a type of linguistic compounding called terpsimbrotos. The pt- in ptolemos (vs. earlier polemos) "war" is thought to arise from a re-analysis of the compound word *phere-t-polemos, metathesised to phere-ptolemos. George Dunkel, "Two old problems in Greek: πτόλεμος and τερψίμβροτος", Glotta 70:3/4:197-225 (1992) JSTOR 40266932.

References

Stub icon

This article relating to Greek mythology is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Ptolemy_(King_of_Thebes), and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.