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Ptolemais of Cyrene Ptolemais of Cyrene ( grc, Πτολεμαῒς ἡ Κυρηναία) was a music theorist, author of ''Pythagorean Principles of Music'' (Πυθαγορικὴ τῆς μουσικῆς στοιχείωσις). She lived perhaps in the 3rd centur ...

, a c. 3rd-century BC mathematician and musical theorist * Ptolemais, daughter of

Ptolemy I Soter Ptolemy I Soter (; gr, Πτολεμαῖος Σωτήρ, ''Ptolemaîos Sōtḗr'' "Ptolemy the Savior"; c. 367 BC – January 282 BC) was a Macedonian Greek general, historian and companion of Alexander the Great from the Kingdom of Macedon ...

and mother of

Demetrius the Fair Demetrius I the Fair or the Handsome ( gr, Δημήτριος ὁ Καλός, c. 285 BC–249 BC), known in modern ancient historical sources as Demetrius of Cyrene, was a Hellenistic king of Cyrene, who succeeded Magas I. Family Dem ...

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Africa

Ptolemais, Cyrenaica Ptolemais (Greek: Πτολεμαΐς) was one of the five cities that formed the Pentapolis of Cyrenaica, the others being Cyrene, Euesperides (later known as Berenice, now Benghazi), Tauchira/Teuchira (later Arsinoe, and now Tocra), and Apolloni ...

, a city in modern-day Libya * Ptolemais Euergetis, modern-day Faiyum in Egypt *

Ptolemais Hermiou Ptolemais Hermiou, or Ptolemais in the Thebaid, was a city and metropolitan archbishopric in Greco-Roman Egypt and remains a Catholic titular see. Today, the city of El Mansha ()-Bsoi () in the Sohag Governorate is located where the ancient city ...

or Ptolemais in the Thebaid, modern-day El Mansha in the Sohag Governorate of Egypt *

Ptolemais Theron Ptolemais Theron ( grc, Πτολεμαῒς Θηρῶν and Πτολεμαῒς ἡ τῶν θηρῶν) ('Ptolemais of the Hunts') was a marketplace on the African side of the Red Sea,Raoul McLaughlin, ''The Roman Empire and the Indian Ocean'', p. ...

, a city on the African coast of the Red Sea

Elsewhere

* Ptolemais (Ionia), or Lebedus, on and around the Kısık Peninsula * Ptolemais (Macedonia), or Ptolemaida, in West Macedonia, Greece * Ptolemais (Pamphylia), a coastal town of ancient Pamphylia or of Cilicia * Ptolemais, a name that may have been given to

Larisa (Troad) Larisa ( grc, Λάρισα, Larisa), or Larissa, was an ancient Greek city in the south-west of the Troad region of Anatolia. Its surrounding territory was known in Greek as the (''Larisaia''). It has been located on a small rise by the coast no ...

, Anatolia *

Ptolemais in Phoenicia Ptolemais was an ancient port city on the Canaanite coast in the region of Palestine (region), Palestine, in the location of the present-day city of Acre, Israel. It was also called Ptolemais in Canaan (or ''Akko'', ''Ake'', or ''Akre'' in Canaani ...

, later Acre, in modern-day Israel

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