Leontiscus
Greek · mortal · hellenistic · mortal
Son of Ptolemy I and Thais. Justin reports his return to Ptolemy by Demetrius after a naval defeat, identified with Salamis in Cyprus in 306 BCE. He and Lagus remain separate figures following Athenaeus’s transmitted list; Bevan’s proposed identification is disputed. His birth and death dates and the birth order of the brothers are unknown.
Parentage
- father: Ptolemy I SoterPaternity is explicitly attributed by Athenaeus.Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 13.576d-e (C. D. Yonge translation, 1854) (primary)
- mother: ThaisMaternity is explicitly attributed by Athenaeus.Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 13.576d-e (C. D. Yonge translation, 1854) (primary)
Variant accounts
- disputed identificationBevan proposed reading Leontiscus and Lagus as two names for one son. Bennett rejects that conjecture; the transmitted list and the separate epigraphic Lagus remain the basis for two records.E. R. Bevan, The House of Ptolemy (1927), chapter II, pp. 52-53 (secondary); Chris Bennett, Egyptian Royal Genealogy, Leontiscus, notes 2-4 (secondary); IG V,2 550, column III, lines 7-9 (PHI Greek Inscriptions transcription) (primary)
Relations
- father: Ptolemy I SoterPaternity is explicitly attributed by Athenaeus.Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 13.576d-e (C. D. Yonge translation, 1854) (primary)
- mother: ThaisMaternity is explicitly attributed by Athenaeus.Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 13.576d-e (C. D. Yonge translation, 1854) (primary)
- sibling: Lagus, son of Ptolemy IAthenaeus lists both as children of Ptolemy and Thais; no birth order is asserted.Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 13.576d-e (C. D. Yonge translation, 1854) (primary)
- sibling: Eirene, daughter of Ptolemy IAthenaeus lists both as children of Ptolemy and Thais; no birth order is asserted.Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 13.576d-e (C. D. Yonge translation, 1854) (primary)
Sources
- Leontiscus is named as a son of Ptolemy I and Thais alongside Lagus and Eirene.: Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 13.576d-e (C. D. Yonge translation, 1854) (primary)
- Justin names Leontiscus as Ptolemy’s son and among those returned to him by Demetrius after the naval defeat.: Justin, Epitome of Pompeius Trogus 15.2.6-8 (primary)
- Bennett places this event at Salamis in Cyprus in 306 BCE and treats birth and death dates as unknown.: Chris Bennett, Egyptian Royal Genealogy, Leontiscus, notes 2-4 (secondary)
- Bevan proposed identifying him with Lagus; Bennett rejects the emendation.: E. R. Bevan, The House of Ptolemy (1927), chapter II, pp. 52-53 (secondary); Chris Bennett, Egyptian Royal Genealogy, Leontiscus, notes 2-4 (secondary)