Lagus

Lagos (Greek Λαγός; 4th century BC ), was the ancestor of the Macedonian royal house of Egypt, the Ptolemies. According to him, this family is often called the " Ptolemies ".

Lagos was married to the nobleman Arsinoe, which was probably related to the Macedonian royal house of Argeaden. Their children were common Ptolemy I and Menelaus. Subsequent reports that Arsinoe was a concubine of the Macedonian king Philip II and was married by this already pregnant with Lagos, set against the context of the run by the Ptolemies in Egypt Alexander cult, with which they linked their own dynasty closely. In this legend is probably also related to the poet Theocritus as he a derivation of the Ptolemies of Heracles verlautbarte in his " panegyric on Ptolemy ", from the deduced themselves the Argeaden. The historian Arrian, however, as the source, among others, the biography of Alexander the Egyptian king Ptolemy I ( FrGrHist 138 ) used, called this in his works several times as a son of Lagos.

The occasionally expressed assertion that Lagos was also with Antigone, the niece of Antipater, married and thus the father of Berenice, based on a mistranslation of the poem of Theocritus.