He was appointed governor of the Jericho region of Israel by the Seleucid king Antiochus VII Sidetes (reigned 138 to 129 BC) in the late second century B.C. and married a daughter of Simon Maccabaeus (died 135 BC), military commander of the Maccabees and founder of Israel's Hasmonean dynasty.
Biblical Account
According to 1 Maccabees 16:11-24,[2] Ptolemy held a banquet for his father-in-law Simon and two of Simon's sons during which he had them all killed. He then attempted to have Simon's third son, John Hyrcanus, killed also, but failed.
In Popular Culture
Ptolemy comes to be associated with the grave sins of jealously, vanity, pride and, above all, treachery. Ptolemy is accused in Dante's Inferno with the sin of treachery and is said to reside in the ninth and deepest circle of Hell with Satan, along with Judas Iscariot and Cain.[3] His memory is perpetuated in Dante's Inferno as 'Ptolemaea', a place in hell designated for traitors against guests in their home.[4]
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