Ptolemaeus
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
Ptolemy
in the texts
On the Embassy
A Macedonian regent whom Aeschines describes as having acted with ingratitude toward Athens, working against Athenian interests in Amphipolis.
I explained how in the first place he continually worked against our city in the interest of Amphipolis, and when we were in controversy with the Thebans, made alliance with them;
The Freedom of the Seas (Mare Liberum)
Geographer whose writings are cited as evidence of ancient eastern voyages.
Pliny’s description of the route to the East, the embassies from the Indies to Augustus, and those from Ceylon to the emperor Claudius, and finally the accounts of the deeds of Trajan, and the writings of Ptolemaeus, all make it quite clear that in the days of Rome’s greatest splendor voyages were made regularly from the Arabian gulf to India, to the islands of the Indian ocean, and even so far as …