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Ptolemy I Soter
Ptolemy I Soter, portrait on a silver tetradrachm; in the British Museum
Ptolemy I Soter was the son of a nobleman named Lagus, who was a native of the Macedonian district of Eordaea, and a woman named Arsinoe, who was related to the Macedonian Argead dynasty.1