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See also: Agathocles, was a citizen of See also: Pella in See also: Macedonia
.
During See also: Alexander's Persian
See also: campaigns he was one of his immediate bodyguard and distinguished himself in See also: India
.
After Alexander's See also: death he was appointed to the See also: government of See also: Thrace and the See also: Chersonese
.
For a long See also: time he was chiefly occupied with fighting against the Odrysian See also: king Seuthes
.
In 315 he joined Cassander,
See also: Ptolemy and Seleucus against Antigonus, who, however, diverted his See also: attention by stirring up Thracian and Scythian tribes against him
.
In 309, he founded Lysimachia in a commanding situation on the neck connecting the Chersonese with the mainland
.
He followed the example of Antigonus in taking the title of king
.
In 302 when the second affiance between Cassander, Ptolemy and Seleucus was made, See also: Lysimachus, reinforced by troops from Cassander, entered See also: Asia Minor, where he met with little resistance
.
On the approach of Antigonus he retired into winter quarters near See also: Heraclea, marrying its widowed See also: queen Amastris, a Persian princess
.
Seleucus joined him in 301, and at the See also: battle of Ipsus Antigonus was slain
.
His dominions were divided among the victors, Lysimachus receiving the greater See also: part of Asia Minor
.
Feeling that Seleucus was becoming dangerously See also: great, he now allied himself with Ptolemy, marrying his daughter Arsine
.
Amastris, who had divorced herself from him, returned to Heraclea . When Antigonus's son See also: Demetrius renewed hostilities (297), during his See also: absence in See also: Greece, Lysimachus seized his towns in Asia Minor, but in 294 concluded a See also: peace whereby Demetrius was recognized as ruler of Macedonia
.
He tried to carry his power beyond the Danube, but was defeated and taken prisoner by the See also: Getae, who, however, set him See also: free on amicable terms
.
Demetrius subsequently threatened Thrace, but had to retire in consequence of'a rising in See also: Boeotia, and an attack from See also: Pyrrhus of See also: Epirus
.
In 288 Lysimachus and Pyrrhus in turn invaded Macedonia, and drove Demetrius out of the country
.
Pyrrhus was at first allowed to remain in possession of Macedonia with the title of king, but in 285 he was expelled by Lysimachus
.
Domestic troubles embittered the last years of Lysimachus's See also: life
.
Amastris had been murdered by her two sons; Lysimachus treacherously put them to death
.
On his return See also: Arsinoe asked the gift of Heraclea, and he granted her See also: request, though he had promised to free the city
.
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 See also: brother Ptolemy Ceraunus; they accused him of conspiring with Seleucus to seize the See also: throne, and he was put to death
.
This atrocious deed of Lysimachus aroused great indignation
.
Many of the cities of Asia revolted, and his most trusted See also: friends deserted him
.
The widow of Agathocles fled to Seleucus, who at once invaded the territory of Lysimachus in Asia . Lysimachus crossed the Hellespont, and in 281 a decisive battle took place at the plain of Corus (Corupedion) inSee also: Lydia
.
Lysimachus was killed; after some days his See also: body, watched by a faithful See also: dog, was found on the See also: field, and given up to his son Alexander, by whom it was interred at Lysimachia
.
See
See also: Arrian, Anab. v
.
13, vi
.
28; See also: Justin xv
.
3, 4, xvii
.
1; See also: Quintus Curtius v
.
3, X
.
30; Diod
.
Sic. xviii
.
3; See also: Polybius v
.
67; Plutarch, Demetrius, 31 . 52, Pyrrhus, 12;See also: Appian, Syriaca, 62; See also: Thirlwall, See also: History of Greece, vol. viii
.
(1847); J
.
P
.
See also: Mahaffy, See also: Story of Alexander's See also: Empire; See also: Droysen, Hellenismus (2nd ed., 1877); A
.
Holm, Griechische Geschichte, vol. iv
.
(1894); B
.
Niese, Gesch. d. griech. u. maked
.
Staaten, vols. i. and ii
.
(1893, 1899); J
.
Beloch, Griech
.
Gesch. vol. iii
.
(1904) ; Hilnerwadel, Forschungen zur Gesch. See also: des Konigs Lysimachus (1900) ; Possenti, Il Re Lisimaco di Tracia (1901) ; Ghione, Note sul regno di Lisimaco (Atli d. real
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Accad. di Torino, xxxix.); and MACEDONIAN EMPIRE
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