Ptolemy

A

from Ancient Greek of Greek

,

by

in

Egypt.

Claudius

Ptolemaeus

(c.

90

–

c.

168

AD),

a

Greek-speaking

mathematician,

geographer,

astronomer,

and

astrologer

who

lived

in

the

Hellenistic

culture

of

Alexandria

in

Roman

Egypt.

His

most

important

works

were

the

Almagest

and

the

Geography

Ptolemy I Soter ("Ptolemy the Savior", 367 BC—283 BC), a Macedonian general under Alexander the Great who was the

of Egypt (323 B.C.E—283 B.C.E) and

of the Ptolemaic Empire. In 305 BC he

the role of King.

The Egyptian

of

who

the

Ptolemy.