He was brought to the university at Alexandria by Ptolemy I, King of Egypt.
After Alexander the Great died of a fever at age 32, the first Ptolemy (Ptolemy I Soter) announced himself king in 305 BC, and commissioned its construction shortly thereafter.
Duncan Sprott's novel The Ptolemies features Ptolemy as a central character and founder of the Ptolemaic Dynasty.
The extract of the plant has also been used for millennia in India – Alexander the Great administered this plant to cure his general Ptolemy I Soter of a poisoned arrow.
It is set in the ancient Middle East after the death of Alexander the Great, and features the major historical figures of the era: Antigonus, his son Demetrius, and Seleucus, Ptolemy, and Lysimachus.
Ptolemy | Ptolemy I Soter | Ptolemy III Euergetes | Ptolemy IV Philopator | Ptolemy II Philadelphus | Antiochus I Soter | Steven Soter | Ptolemy XII Auletes | Ptolemy V Epiphanes | Ptolemy of Mauretania | Ptolemy of Cyprus | Ptolemy II of Tusculum | Ptolemy Apion | Geography (Ptolemy) | Ptolemy X Alexander I | Ptolemy (name) | Ptolemy Keraunos | Ptolemy I of Tusculum | Ptolemy-el-Garib | Ptolemy Dean | Demetrius I Soter | Barry Ptolemy | Anthony Soter Fernandez |