# Ptolemais of Cyrene

> Ptolemais of Cyrene was a music theorist, author of Pythagorean Principles of Music. She lived perhaps in the 3rd century BC, and "certainly not after the first century AD." She is the only known female music theorist of antiquity.

*Third-century BC mathematician and musical theorist, author of Pythagorean Principles of Music*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/ptolemais-of-cyrene

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Academic ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Academics
- **Born:** -300
- **Status:** unknown
- **Gender:** female

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 43.4 / 100
- **Momentum:** 3.4 / 100  (trend: STABLE)
- **Historical depth:** 11.1 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 18.9 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 60.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 45.0 / 100

## Sources
- [Птолемаїда Киренська](https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%97%D0%B4%D0%B0_%D0%9A%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%81%D1%8C%D0%BA%D0%B0)
- [Птолемаида Киренска](https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B0_%D0%9A%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0)
- [Ptolemaida de Cirene](https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemaida_de_Cirene)
- [Ptolemais von Kyrene](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemais_von_Kyrene)
- [Ptolemais of Cyrene](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemais_of_Cyrene)
- [Ptolemaida de Cirene](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemaida_de_Cirene)
- [Ptolemaida Zirenekoa](https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemaida_Zirenekoa)
- [Ptolémaïs de Cyrène](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptol%C3%A9ma%C3%AFs_de_Cyr%C3%A8ne)
- [Tolemaide di Cirene](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolemaide_di_Cirene)
- [キュレネのプトレマイス](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AD%E3%83%A5%E3%83%AC%E3%83%8D%E3%81%AE%E3%83%97%E3%83%88%E3%83%AC%E3%83%9E%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B9)
- [Птолемаида Киренска](https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B0_%D0%9A%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0)
- [Птолемаида Киренская](https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B0_%D0%9A%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F)
- [Ptolemais (müzik teorisyeni)](https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemais_(m%C3%BCzik_teorisyeni))
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q525814)

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