Arsinoe of Macedon

Arsinoe of Macedon ( altgr. Ἀρσινόη ) was in the 4th century BC, living ancestress of the Macedonian dynasty of Egypt, the Ptolemies. A preserved fragment of the late 3rd century BC grammarian living and biographer Satyrus is their pedigree on the father's side, is traced back to Heracles and Dionysus. Historically recyclable can be seen from the fact that they came from the daughter of a Meleager and great-granddaughter of Amyntas I. a sideline of the Macedonian royal house of Argeaden. Many historians, such as Hans Volkmann, keep this genealogy credible.

The wife of the Macedonian nobles Lagos was Arsinoe ( altgr. Λαγός ). She was the mother of Ptolemy I, and probably also of Menelaus. Subsequent reports that Arsinoe a concubine of the Macedonian king Philip II and of this have been already pregnant with Ptolemy the Lagos said to have been given to the wife, thus making Ptolemy the half- brother of Alexander the Great. They probably originated in the context of the run by the Ptolemies in Egypt, the cult of Alexander, with which they linked their own dynasty closely. The historian Arrian, however, who used it as a source, among others, the biography of Alexander by Ptolemy ( FGrH 138) called this in his works several times as a son of Lagos. But even at this fatherhood some historians doubt.