Ptolemy

Ptolemy Is my pharoh,HE was a superb administrator He standardized the monetary system in Egypt and re-invigorated the economy.He began many building projects, including temples in Terenutis, Tebtynus, Oxryrnchos, and Tuna el-Gebel. In Alexandria, his home city, he built a temple to Serapis and the foundations for the Museion.Ptolemywas the first of the Ptolemaic dynasty, which lasted almost 300 years.He was a very businesslike pharaoh, running the conquered country for profit once he received Egypt as part of the spoils of war after the death of Alexander.He married Eurydice, the daughter of Antipater in Rome, to strengthen his position, but he eventually married his half-sister, her niece, Berenice.Ptolemy I Soter was the son of Lagos, an advisor to Alexander the Great and was the first pharaoh of the well-known Ptolemy dynasty.He was a veteran soldier and accomplished commander. Ptolemy I ruled first as a governor for the kings of Macedon, then from about 305 BCE he ruled as the king in Egypt.He was imprisoned with his wife in 316 BCE by Cassandros, even though the end of his reign is usually extended to the beginning of Ptolemy and Alexander was the half-brother of alexander the great. alexander the greatwas murdered at the behest of his grandmother, Queen Olympias and the throne was passed to the son of Alexander the Great.