Person: Marcus Aurelius Ptolemaios from Argos (Argeia)

Person ID: 1456
Name: Marcus Aurelius Ptolemaios
Place of Origin: Argos (Argeia)
Date Range: 175 to 200
Honorary Citizen of:
Athens (Attica)
List of Festivals:
Aktia in Nikopolis (Epeiros)
Capitolia in Rome (Italy)
Eusebeia in Puteoli (Italy)
ex Argous aspis in Argos (Argeia)
Hadrianeia in Athens (Attica)
Isthmia in Isthmia (Corinthia)
Nemea in Argos (Argeia)
Olympia Asklepeia Komodeia in Pergamon (Mysia)
Olympia Kommodeia in Sparta (Lakonia)
Pythia in Delphi (Phokis)
Sebasta in Neapolis (Italy)
List of Events:
Olympia Kommodeia in Sparta (Lakonia) on ( 160 to 217 )
Sebasta in Neapolis (Italy) on ( 175 to 200 )
Sebasta in Neapolis (Italy) on ( 175 to 200 )
Sebasta in Neapolis (Italy) on ( 175 to 200 )
Olympia Asklepeia Komodeia in Pergamon (Mysia) on ( 175 to 200 )
Hadrianeia in Athens (Attica) on ( 175 to 200 )
ex Argous aspis in Argos (Argeia) on ( 175 to 200 )
ex Argous aspis in Argos (Argeia) on ( 175 to 200 )
ex Argous aspis in Argos (Argeia) on ( 175 to 200 )
Aktia in Nikopolis (Epeiros) on ( 175 to 200 )
Sebasta in Neapolis (Italy) on ( 175 to 200 )
Eusebeia in Puteoli (Italy) on ( 175 to 200 )
Capitolia in Rome (Italy) on ( 175 to 200 )
Isthmia in Isthmia (Corinthia) on ( 175 to 200 )
Isthmia in Isthmia (Corinthia) on ( 175 to 200 )
Isthmia in Isthmia (Corinthia) on ( 175 to 200 )
Isthmia in Isthmia (Corinthia) on ( 175 to 200 )
Nemea in Argos (Argeia) on ( 175 to 200 )
Nemea in Argos (Argeia) on ( 175 to 200 )
Nemea in Argos (Argeia) on ( 175 to 200 )
Nemea in Argos (Argeia) on ( 175 to 200 )
Nemea in Argos (Argeia) on ( 175 to 200 )
Pythia in Delphi (Phokis) on ( 175 to 200 )
Pythia in Delphi (Phokis) on ( 175 to 200 )
Pythia in Delphi (Phokis) on ( 175 to 200 )
List of Disciplines:
literature/oratory: poiesis
List of Agonistic Titles:
periodonikes
List of References:
FD III.1 89
RPh 56 (1930), p. 54
List of Prosopographies:
Sarikakis (1965), no. 15
Caldelli (1993), no. 41
Strasser (2001), no. 218
Weir (2004), p. 126
Farrington (2012), no. 1.203
Cartledge & Spawforth (1989), D.14
Kostouros (2008), no. 124
Stefanis (1988), no. 2164
Strasser (2021), no. 109
Bélis (1999), p. 152-153
Jacquemin (1999), no. 73
Mitsos (1952), p. 52
Comment: He won the periodos three times as a ποιητής and was the first and only one to do so in history (ll. 2-3). Apart from the victories mentioned in the inscription, he also won numerous prize-games in both Asia and Greece (ll. 8-9). - CT According to Farrington (2012) this athlete was active ca AD 160-217.