Ptolemy ( grc, Πτολεμαῖος) was one of the selected officers of

Alexander the Great Alexander III of Macedon ( grc, wikt:Ἀλέξανδρος, Ἀλέξανδρος, Alexandros; 20/21 July 356 BC – 10/11 June 323 BC), commonly known as Alexander the Great, was a king of the Ancient Greece, ancient Greek kingdom of Maced ...

, called somatophylaces. He was killed at the

siege of Halicarnassus The siege of Halicarnassus was fought between Alexander the Great and the Achaemenid Persian Empire in 334 BC. Alexander, who had no navy, was constantly being threatened by the Persian navy. It continuously attempted to provoke an engagement ...

, 334 BC, commanding two ''taxeis'' of

Hypaspists A hypaspist ( el, Ὑπασπιστής "shield bearer" or "shield covered") is a squire, man at arms, or "shield carrier". In Homer, Deiphobos advances "" () or under cover of his shield. By the time of Herodotus (426 BC), the word had come ...

, those of Adaeus and Timander.

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Arrian Arrian of Nicomedia (; Greek: ''Arrianos''; la, Lucius Flavius Arrianus; ) was a Greek historian, public servant, military commander and philosopher of the Roman period. ''The Anabasis of Alexander'' by Arrian is considered the best ...

, Anab. i. 22 *Who's Who in the Age of Alexander the Great by Waldemar Heckel 334 BC deaths Somatophylakes Ancient Macedonian generals Ancient Greeks killed in battle 4th-century BC Macedonians Year of birth unknown {{AncientGreece-bio-stub