Meleager of Macedonia (3rd c. BC - 3rd c. BC)
ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ Meleager was king of Macedonia in the year 279 BC. His father is considered to be Ptolemy I the Savior, general and descendant of Alexander the Great and founder of the Ptolemaic Dynasty in Egypt. His possible mother is Eurydice, the third wife of the latter. His siblings from the same parents were his predecessor on the throne of Macedonia, Ptolemy Kerenos, Lysandra, Ptolemais, Argaeus and an unnamed son of Eurydice. Biography The Chronicle of Eusebius mentions that Meleager was the brother of Ptolemy Kerainos and the grandson of Lagos, which, if true, makes Meleager the son of Ptolemy I. The name of his mother is unknown to us, but the fact that he succeeded Ptolemy Kerainos suggests that Meleager accompanied him to the court of Lysimachus, king of Thrace, when Kerainos fled there after a dispute over their father's succession with his half-brother brother of Ptolemy II Philadelphus. It is noted that Lysandra was also there. All this increases the chances that Meleager i...