Lysimachus

Lysimachus
Lysimachus
	Hellenistic marble bust of Lysimachus at the Ephesus Archaeological Museum, dated circa 300 BC.
King of Thrace
Reign	306–281 BC
Predecessor	Alexander IV
Successor	Ptolemy Keraunos
King of Asia Minor
Reign	301–281 BC
Predecessor	Antigonus I Monophthalmus
Successor	Seleucus I Nicator
King of Macedon; with Pyrrhus of Epirus
Reign	288–281 BC
Predecessor	Demetrius I Poliorcetes
Successor	Ptolemy Keraunos
Born	c. 360 BC; Crannon or Pella
Died	February 281 BC (aged approximately 79); Corupedium, near Sardis; (modern-day Salihli, Manisa, Turkey)
Burial	Lysimachia, Thrace; (modern-day Kavakköy, Çanakkale, Turkey)
Consort	Nicaea; Amastris; Arsinoe;
Issue; Among others	Agathocles; Ptolemy; Alexander;
Father	Agathocles

Lysimachus (/lɪˈsɪməkəs/; Greek: Λυσίμαχος, Lysimachos; c. 360 BC – 281 BC) was a Thessalian^[3] officer and successor of Alexander the Great, who in 306 BC, became King of Thrace, Asia Minor and Macedon.

^ The Pimlico Dictionary Of Classical Civilizations: "Lysimachus (360–281 BC), one of the close companions of Alexander the Great, assumed the title of king in 305 BC"
^ The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Coinage: "Lysimachus (c. 360–281 BC), another diadoch and a past bodyguard of Alexander, received the greater part of Asia Minor."
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