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  Lysimachus
After Perdiccas had rejected the hand of Antipater's daughter Nicaea, Lysimachus married her and in 315 he joined the coalition of Ptolemy, Seleucus, and Cassander against Antigonus.
Lysimachus was the principal beneficiary of the partition of Antigonus' territories which followed the battle.
Lysimachus made a stand at Corupedium near Magnesia in Asia Minor and was killed in the battle.
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  Lysimachus - LoveToKnow 1911
In 284 Arsinoe, desirous of gaining the succession for her sons in preference to Agathocles (the eldest son of Lysimachus), intrigued against him with the help of her brother Ptolemy Ceraunus; they accused him of conspiring with Seleucus to seize the throne, and he was put to death.
Lysimachus crossed the Hellespont, and in 281 a decisive battle took place at the plain of Corus (Corupedion) in Lydia.
Lysimachus was killed; after some days his body, watched by a faithful dog, was found on the field, and given up to his son Alexander, by whom it was interred at Lysimachia.
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 Lysimachus
Lysimachus, who was about the same age as Alexander the Great, had been one of the latter's 7 "bodyguards" (generals whose loyalty the conqueror trusted) and distinguished himself in the conquest of Asia.
Lysimachus often sided with Ptolemy in disputes between the other generals who had partitioned Alexander's empire.
Lysimachus' ally, Cassander, was confirmed as king of Macedonia.
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 Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 867 (v. 2)
Lysimachus was at the time 16 years old ; his brother three years younger; and both were remarkable for their beauty.
He was a Macedonian by birth (according to Ar-rian, a native of Pella), but not by origin, his father, Agathocles, having been originally a Penest or serf of Cranon in Thessaly, who had insinuated himself by his flatteries into the good graces of Philip of Macedon, and risen to a high place in his favour.
But during the seven years which he thus spent in apparent inac­tivity, it is clear that he had not only consolidated his power, but extended his dominion as far as the mouths of the Danube, and occupied with his gar­risons the Greek cities along the western shores of the Euxine.
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  LYSIMACHUS
Lysimachus, himself, is known to have been born in Pella, a couple of years after Alexander, when his father Agathocles was a leading light at Philip's court who, we know, had been despatched by the king "to deal with the Perrhaebi and take charge of affairs in that area.
Lysimachus had been lucky; the campaign had been far from a complete success yet he was at least technically able to claim control of this province that Philip II had won decades before.
Lysimachus was always referred to as the treasurer which, aside from suggesting he was both parsimonious and had taken less of a warrior’s part in the Persian wars could most offensively suggest he was a eunuch.
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  Lysimachus
In 284 Arsinoë, desirous of gaining the succession for her sons in preference to Agathocles (the eldest son of Lysimachus), intrigued against him with the help of her brother Ptolemy Ceraunus[?]; they accused him of conspiring with Seleucus to seize the throne, and he was put to death.
Lysimachus crossed the Hellespont, and in 281 a decisive battle took place at the plain of Corus (Corupedion) in Lydia.
Lysimachus was killed; after some days his body, watched by a faithful dog, was found on the field, and given up to his son Alexander, by whom it was interred at Lysimachia.
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 Plato's
Lysimachus, the son of Aristides the Just, and Melesias, the son of the elder Thucydides, two aged men who live together, are desirous of educating their sons in the best manner.
Lysimachus here proposes to resign the argument into the hands of the younger part of the company, as he is old, and has a bad memory.
LYSIMACHUS: Those who have reached my time of life, Socrates and Nicias and Laches, fall out of acquaintance with the young, because they are generally detained at home by old age; but you, O son of Sophroniscus, should let your fellow demesman have the benefit of any advice which you are able to give.
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 Lysimachus - Encyclopedia.com
Five years later Lysimachus was defeated in a war with Seleucus and was killed in battle at Corupedium near Magnesia ad Sipylum.
A legend says that Lysimachus' wife, Arsinoë; (daughter of Ptolemy I), persuaded him to kill his son by a former marriage and that the son's widow took refuge with Seleucus and provoked the final war.
Lysimachus was so filled with remorse that he converted to Christianity...
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When Antigonus's son Demetrius I of Macedon renewed hostilities (297 BC), during his absence in Greece, Lysimachus seized his towns in Asia Minor, but in 294 BC concluded a peace whereby Demetrius was recognized as ruler of Macedonia.
In 284 BC Arsinoe, desirous of gaining the succession for her sons in preference to Agathocles (the eldest son of Lysimachus), intrigued against him with the help of her brother Ptolemy Keraunos; they accused him of conspiring with Seleucus to seize the throne, and he was put to death.
In 281 BC, Lysimachus crossed the Hellespont into Lydia, and at the decisive Battle of Corupedium was killed.
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 The Internet Classics Archive | Laches, or Courage by Plato
Certainly, Nicias; and I quite approve of the remark which Lysimachus made about his own father and the father of Melesias, and which is applicable, not only to them, but to us, and to every one who is occupied with public affairs.
Such is my judgment, Lysimachus, of the desirableness of this art; but, as I said at first, ask Socrates, and do not let him go until he has given you his opinion of the matter.
I see very clearly, Lysimachus, that you have only known Socrates' father, and have no acquaintance with Socrates himself: at least, you can only have known him when he was a child, and may have met him among his fellow wardsmen, in company with his father, at a sacrifice, or at some other gathering.
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 LYSIMACHUS (c. 355—281... - Online Information article about LYSIMACHUS (c. 355—281...
Lysimachus, reinforced by troops from Cassander, entered See also:
Amastris had been murdered by her two sons; Lysimachus treacherously put them to death.
The widow of Agathocles fled to Seleucus, who at once invaded the territory of Lysimachus in Asia.
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 The Diadochi: The career of Lysimachus
Lysimachus (361-281) was one of the Diadochi, the generals who contested the inheritance of Alexander the Great.
Lysimachus was of Macedonian origin and one of Alexander's bodyguards.
Lysimachus also went to war against Pyrrhus son of Aeacides; he waited for his departure from Epirus (Pyrrhus in his career wandered far and wide) and then ravaged the country until he reached the royal tombs.
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