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Epigonos of Telmessos


Epigonos of Telmessos (Greek: Επίγονου του Τελμησσόυ, flourished 3rd century BC), also known as Epigonos was a Greek Prince from Asia Minor.

Epigonos was the second born son to Ptolemy I Epigone by an unnamed Greek aristocratic mother and had an older brother called Lysimachus of Telmessos. Epigonos’ father Ptolemy, was a Greek Prince who through marriage and adoption was to be the first intended heir of the Pharaoh Ptolemy II Philadelphus. Epigonos through his father, was a relation to three of the Diadochi of the Greek King Alexander the Great: Lysimachus, Ptolemy I Soter and the powerful Regent Antipater.

His paternal grandfather was Thessalian Lysimachus who was King of Thrace, Asia Minor and Macedonia His paternal grandmother was Arsinoe II, a Ptolemaic Greek Macedonian Princess who married his paternal grandmother as his third wife who later married her full-blooded brother Ptolemy II Philadelphus as her third husband and through marriage became Queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom. Arsinoe II was a daughter born to Ptolemy I Soter and Berenice I of Egypt. Ptolemy I was the founder of the Ptolemaic dynasty of Ancient Egypt and Berenice I was the great-niece of the powerful Regent Antipater, through her maternal grandfather Cassander, the brother of Antipater.


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