Ptolemy (somatophylax)

Ptolemy (Greek: Πτολεμαῖος; † 334 BC), was a bodyguard ( somatophylax ) of the Macedonian king Alexander the Great, whom he accompanied on his BC Asia campaign from 334. At the siege of Halicarnassus in the same year Ptolemy was as the leader of two departments ( taxeis ) lighter infantry (maybe hypaspists ) killed in battle. His place among the bodyguards was occupied by Hephaistion.

Ptolemy was possibly the father of that Ptolemy, who at the Conference of Triparadeisos 320 BC the bodyguard of King Philip III. Arrhidaios was appointed.