Philip (son of Lysimachus)

Philip (Greek: Φίλιππος, 294 BC – 279 BC) was a Greek prince from Asia Minor who was of Macedonian and Thessalian descent.

Philip was the third son born to Lysimachus and Arsinoe II. Philip had two older full-blooded brothers: Ptolemy I Epigone and Lysimachus.

His father Lysimachus was one of the Diadochi of Alexander the Great who was King of Thrace, Asia Minor and Macedonia. His paternal grandfather was Agathocles of Pella a nobleman who was a contemporary to King Philip II of Macedon and his paternal grandmother was an unnamed woman perhaps named Arsinoe. From his father’s previous marriages and from an Odrysian concubine, Philip had two older paternal half-brothers: Agathocles,Alexander and two older paternal half-sisters: Eurydice,Arsinoe I and perhaps another unnamed sister who may have been the first wife of Ptolemy Keraunos.

His mother Arsinoe II, was a Ptolemaic Greek Princess who married his father as his third wife and married him as her first husband. She was a daughter born to Ptolemy I Soter and Berenice I of Egypt and was a sister to the Pharaoh Ptolemy II Philadelphus. Ptolemy I was another of the Diadochi of Alexander the Great who later founded the Ptolemaic dynasty of Ancient Egypt and Berenice I was the great-niece of the powerful Regent Antipater.