Aristomenes of

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or Aristomenes the

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( grc-gre, Ἀριστομένης; born 3rd century BC; died 2nd century BC) was regent and chief minister of

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in the Ptolemaic period during the reign of the boy king

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. Aristomenes, son of Menneas, was a native of the city of

in Acarnania,

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. He migrated to Egypt some time after 216 BC and became regent Priest of Alexander in 204/3 BC. He supplanted

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as regent in 201 BC. In 197/196 BC, when Ptolemy V at the age of 12 took personal control of the kingdom, Aristomenes remained chief minister; this was his role when the "Memphis Decree" (recorded on the

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) was issued in March 196. He fell from power, for unknown reasons, in 192 BC.

Sources

Primary sources

*Polybius, x
25

Secondary works

* Walter Ameling, "Aristomenes in ''

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