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Ptolemy (son of Philip)

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Ptolemy, son of Philip was an officer who commanded the leading squadron of Macedonian cavalry (that of Socrates of Macedon) at the Battle of the Granicus,[1] Both Gronovius[2] and Droysen,[citation needed] suppose that he is the same man that Alexander left with a force of 3000 infantry and 200 cavalry to defend the province of Caria, and who subsequently, together with Asander the governor of Lydia, defeated the Persian general Orontobates, 332 BC.[3]

Notes

  1. ^ Arrian Anabasis Alexandri I.14.
  2. ^ Ad Arrian Anabasis Alexandri I.C.
  3. ^ Arrian Anabasis Alexandri I.14, I.23, II.5.

References

  • Who's Who in the Age of Alexander the Great by Waldemar Heckel ISBN 978-1-4051-1210-9

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

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