Comments by "SantomPh" (@SantomPh) on "Overly Sarcastic Podcast: The Ptolemies" video.

  1. she was the last Ptolemy and actually bore Caesar a son, plus the last absolute ruler of Egypt before Rome took it over for themselves. Naturally she would be the most well known.
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  2. Philos = love (like philosophy is the love of wisdom) , "adelphos" = brother . William Penn, the man Pennsylvania is named after wanted a town where people could just get along without any of the religious issues evident in other colonies. Hence he founded The City of Brotherly Love = Philadelphia. The incest of the Ptolemies was Philadelphia taken in an erotic context, unlike the American city.
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  3. the Ptolemies were carrying on Egyptian traditions so it counts. The Targaryen histories however read like a retelling of Ptolemy's families at times.
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  4. the Ptolemies believed that they had to pass on the names.
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  5. it's a plural form of philo-adelphus , like Columbia is the feminine-plural of Columbus.
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  6. Alexander held together his empire by force of will but with no real bureaucracy or delegation of power. The Persians he defeated ironically stood back up and emerged as the Seleucid, Parthians , Sassanids etc because they could go back to their established systems of governance. Alexander would have faced rebellions eventually from his subjects as he was a conqueror, not quite a ruler. His son would have faced the same issues and the empire would have collapsed eventually. The Diadochi fighting over the kingship would have been an inevitability in any case
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