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Lysimachus

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Lysimachus (360–281 BC)

Macedonian general under Alexander the Great, and later king of Thrace. He was one of a number of generals who struggled for power in the Wars of the Diadochi which followed the death of Alexander 323 BC.

Following Alexander's death, Lysimachus was assigned Thrace and the neighbouring countries as far as the River Danube. He extended his kingdom still further and founded the city of Lysimachia on the Hellespont. Together with Seleucus I, Cassander, and Ptolemy I, he defeated the Macedonian generals Antigonus I and his son Demetrius at Ipsus 301 BC. He obtained possession of Macedonia 286 BC, and retained it until his death in battle against Seleucus on the plain of Corus.



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Lysimachus, however, says that the author of the "Sack" writes as follows:
SOCRATES: And did not he train his son Lysimachus better than any other Athenian in all that could be done for him by the help of masters?
 
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