Menelaus, son of Lagus
Greek · mortal · hellenistic · mortal
Brother of Ptolemy I and commander in Cyprus, defeated at Salamis in 306 BCE. Lagus is his attested father. Arsinoe is a proposed mother, not an explicitly named mother in the surviving evidence.
Parentage
Relations
- father: Lagus
- proposed mother: Arsinoe, mother of Ptolemy I
- sibling: Ptolemy I Soter
Sources
- Plutarch, Demetrius 15.2 and 16.1-4
- Chris Bennett, Egyptian Royal Genealogy, Menelaus, notes 1-3 (including P.Hib. I 84a and P.Eleph. 2)