# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ptolemy-keraunos
# Generated: 2026-08-31T21:50:57.649Z

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name: "Ptolemy Keraunos"
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description: "Ptolemy Keraunos — \"Thunderbolt\" — got passed over for the throne of Egypt, fled north, orchestrated the collapse of another kingdom, murdered the man who'd just conquered it, and grabbed Macedon for himself. Seventeen months later the Gauls killed him in battle."
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birthDate: "-318"
deathDate: "-279"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     60
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  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born around 319 BC, Ptolemy Keraunos was the son of Ptolemy I Soter and originally in line to rule Egypt. His father shunted him aside for a younger brother, Ptolemy II Philadelphus, so Keraunos left for the court of Lysimachus in Thrace and Macedon. There he worked the angles until Lysimachus's kingdom fell to Seleucus I in 281 BC — then assassinated Seleucus and took the Macedonian throne for himself. His epithet, "Thunderbolt," pointed to the impatient and destructive streak that defined him. In January or February 279 BC, seventeen months into his reign, he died fighting the Gauls.