Aëtus son of Aëtus

Aetos III. (Greek Ἀετός ), son of Aetos, was a Greek officer in the service of the Egyptian kings from the Ptolemäerdynastie during the 3rd and 2nd century BC.

He was possibly a son, but much more of a grandson of the strategists and priest Aetos. The Aetos, which was called BC between the years 245 and 242 as commander of a mercenary Thracian department is likely to have been genealogically between them. Aetos III. BC was called strategos in 203/202 in the Office of Cilicia and was probably the successor of his uncle Thraseas. After his cousins ​​Ptolemy, Apollonius and Thraseas were crossed over to the year 202/201 BC on the side of the enemy with the Ptolemies Seleucids, Aetos lost his position.

However, he regained the favor of the king Ptolemy V and in the eponymous priesthood of the deified Alexander and the Ptolemäerkönige ( Ptolemaic cult of Alexander ) was used. As such, he was ( 197/196 BC) mentioned in the ninth year of King on the 1799 discovered the Rosetta Stone. His full title was priest of Alexandros, the Theoi Soteres, the Theoi Adelphoi, the Theoi Euergetai, the Theoi Philopatores and Theos Epiphanes Eucharistos.