100 days of Nicknames! #6 PTOLEMAEUS

Day 2,582, 22:06 • Published in Greece Greece • by THRAX and RUMELIAN
Ptolemaeus

Latin form of Ptolemeos from the polemeios "warlike", "aggressive" or "son of war". Some autienrieth renders the meaning of the name to be an adjective from ptólemos, explained as a Homeric form of pólemos, "war".

Ptolemaeus was the name of one of the generals of Alexander the Great and several Macedonian Kings of Egypt


Ptolemy I, Satrap, Tetradrachm. Alexandria, ca. 309 BC.

Ptolemaios is first attested in Homer's Iliad and is the name of an Achaean warrior, son of Piraeus, father of Eurymedon.


Ptolemy I Soter AV Stater. Kyrene mint, struck circa 300-298 BC.

This was also the name of a astronomer, Ptolemy ‘Keraunos’ who is named after the lighting bolt thrown by Zeus.



This is the #6 of about 100 days series of articles dadicated to erepublik nicknames!

Until now:

1 AEROPOS
2 DEMETRIUS
3 ARCHELAUS
4 ALEXANDER
5 ANTIGONUS