I Digress: Ptolemy I and Alexander the Great, brothers?

04/25/21 • 7 min

Our digression this week is from Persepolis and has us pondering if Ptolemy I and Alexander the Great could possibly have been brothers.
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04/25/21 • 7 min

Destination: History - I Digress: Ptolemy I and Alexander the Great, brothers?

Transcript

Welcome to Destination: History - I Digress, where we tackle interesting and only slightly relevant things.

Today we digress from Persepolis to find out if Alexander the Great and Ptolemy I were half-brothers.

The rumours – 00:21

So there are two stories as to the paternal figure in Ptolemy’s life.

One is that he was the son of a Macedonian noblemen, Lagus.

The other is that he was the illegitimate son of Philip II. Who coincidentally, was a

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