Lagus
{{Short description|Father of Ptolemy I Soter}}
{{For|the rune|Laukaz}}
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| spouse = Arsinoe of Macedon
| issue = Ptolemy I, Pharaoh of Egypt
| native_lang1 = Greek
| native_lang1_name1 = {{lang|grc|Λάγος}}
| royal house = Ptolemaic dynasty
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| birth_date = 4th c. BC
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| death_date = 4th c. BC
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Lagus of Eordaia (Greek Λάγος, Lagos; lived 4th century BC) was a Macedonian courtier and the father of Ptolemy, the founder of the Ptolemaic dynasty. He married Arsinoe of the Argead dynasty and a concubine of Philip II, king of Macedon, who was said to have been pregnant at the time of their marriage, forming the basis of Ptolemy as the son of Philip; but it is possible that this is a later myth fabricated to glorify the Ptolemaic dynasty.{{r|paus_1.6.2_curt_9.8_suda}} From an anecdote recorded by Plutarch,{{r|plut_9}} it is clear that Lagus was a man of obscure birth; hence, when Theocritus{{r|theoc_17.6}} calls Ptolemy a descendant of Heracles, he probably means to represent him as the son of Philip. Lagus and Arsinoe also were parents to Menelaus.
Misreading
Lagus (Lykaionike)
Lagus (son of Ptolemy), winner in Synoris Arcadian Lykaia 308 BC,[http://epigraphy.packhum.org/inscriptions//main?url=oi%3Fikey%3D32707%26bookid%3D12 IG V,2 550.8] may be a relative of the Lagus family.
References
- Smith, William (editor); Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20051218144047/http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/1820.html "Lagus (1)"]}}, Boston, (1867)
Notes
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Pausanias, Description of Greece, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160&query=1%3A6%3A2&chunk=section i. 6]; Curtius Rufus, Historia Alexandri Magni, [http://remacle.org/bloodwolf/historiens/quintecurce/neuf.htm ix. 8]; Suda, s.v. [http://www.stoa.org/sol-bin/search.pl?db=REAL&search_method=QUERY&login=guest&enlogin=guest&user_list=LIST&page_num=1&searchstr=lagos&field=hw_eng&num_per_page=100 "Lagos"]
Theocritus, Idylls, [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4775 xvii. 7]
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