Ptolemais may refer to: People Ptolemais of Cyrene, a c. 3rd-century BC mathematician and musical theorist Ptolemais, daughter of Ptolemy I Soter and mother of Demetrius the Fair Places Africa Ptolemais, Cyrenaica, a city in modern-day Libya Ptolemais Euergetis, modern-day Faiyum in Egypt Ptolemais Hermiou or Ptolemais in the Thebaid, modern-day El Mansha in the Sohag Governorate of Egypt Ptolemais Theron, a city on the African coast of the Red Sea Elsewhere Ptolemais (Ionia), or Lebedus, on and around the Kısık Peninsula Ptolemais (Macedonia), or Ptolemaida, in West Macedonia, Greece Ptolemais (Pamphylia), a coastal town of ancient Pamphylia or of Cilicia Ptolemais, a name that may have been given to Larisa (Troad), Anatolia Ptolemais in Phoenicia, later Acre, in modern-day Israel See also Ptolemy (disambiguation) Ptolemaic Kingdom Ptolemaiida, a taxon of extinct wolf-like mammals