Lagus
Family: Egyptian · Role: father of Soter · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 1
In Book 1, Chapter 1, Lagus is identified as the father of Ptolemy, who is sent to punish the Athenians. In Chapter 8, Soter is named as “the son of Lagus Soter.” Later, in Book 9, Chapter 16, Ptolemy dedicated an altar to Ammon at the temple of Ammon.
Relationship record
Life events
- Ptolemy dedicated an altar to Ammon.(Book 9 · Chapter 16 · 📍 temple of Ammon)
- With: Ptolemy (son of Lagus) Ammon
- “the altar which Ptolemy the son of Lagus dedicated to Ammon”
Book 1 · Chapter 1
- child: Ptolemy (son of Lagus) “Ptolemy, the son of Lagus, sent to punish the Athenians”
Book 1 · Chapter 6
- child: Ptolemy (son of Lagus) “Ptolemy, the Macedonians think, was really the son of Philip the son of Amyntas, (but putatively the son of Lagus)”
Book 1 · Chapter 8
- child: Soter (Soter was the son of Lagus.) “the son of Lagus Soter”
Book 1 · Chapter 11
- child: Ptolemy (son of Lagus) “Ptolemy the son of Lagus”
Book 6 · Chapter 3
- child: Ptolemy (son of Lagus) “the votive offering of Ptolemy the son of Lagus.”
Book 6 · Chapter 15
- child: Ptolemy (son of Lagus) “Ptolemy the son of Lagus”
Book 6 · Chapter 16
- child: Ptolemy (son of Lagus) (Lagus is Ptolemy's father.) “Ptolemy the son of Lagus”
Book 6 · Chapter 17
- child: Ptolemy (son of Lagus) (Lagus is the father of the elder Ptolemy.) “the statue of Ptolemy, the son of Ptolemy, the son of Lagus”
Book 9 · Chapter 16
- child: Ptolemy (son of Lagus) (Lagus is Ptolemy's father.) “which Ptolemy the son of Lagus dedicated to Ammon”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.