Pelops, son of Pelops
Pelops (
Ptolemaic kingdom, son of Pelops, son of Alexander
, who had himself been a Ptolemaic official.
Under King
Antiochus III by Agathocles in order to keep him away from the Ptolemaic court in Alexandria.[3] He is not attested again after this. Polycrates of Argos
replaced him as governor of Cyprus.
Pelops was married to Myrsine daughter of Hyperbassas, who was honoured with a statue in the temple of
Berenice II in 196/5 BC.[5]
Pelops and Myrsine had a son called Ptolemy.
References
- ^ SEG 18.734.
- Christian Blinkenberg: Lindos. Fouilles et recherches 1902–1914. Band 2: Inscriptions. De Gruyter, Berlin 1941, No. 139.
- ^ Polybius, Histories 15.25.13.
- ^ Terence Bruce Mitford: "The Hellenistic Inscriptions of Old Paphos." The Annual of the British School at Athens. 56 (1961) p. 15, no. 39.
- ^ Terence B. Mitford in Gerald A. Wainwright: "Keftiu" The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology (JEA) 17 (1931) pp. 31–32.
Bibliography
- Terence Bruce Mitford: "Ptolemy Son of Pelops." The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology. (JEA) 46 (1960) pp. 109–111.