What is "lysimachus"

Lysimachus ( Greek: Λυσίμαχος, Lysimachos; c. 360 BC – 281 BC) was a Macedonian officer and diadochus (i.e. "successor") of Alexander the Great, who became a basileus ("King") in 306 BC, ruling Thrace, Asia Minor and Macedon.

Lysimachus is an ancient and modern Greek name meaning "scattering the battle". The female equivalent of the name is Lysimache.

The name may refer to:

• Lysimachus the father of the Athenian politician Aristides the Just who had a grandson of the same name through Aristides
• Lysimachus of Acarnania, second tutor of Alexander of Great
• Lysimachus, a general who was a somatophylax of Alexander the Great and later King of Thrace, Macedonia and Asia Minor. Other members of his family include:
  • his son, Lysimachus, one of the sons from his third wife Arsinoe II
  • his grandson, Lysimachus of Egypt, one of the sons of Ptolemy II Philadelphus from his first wife Arsinoe I, who was one of the daughters of Lysimachus
  • his other grandson, Lysimachus of Telmessos, first son of Ptolemy I Epigone who was the first son of Lysimachus from his third wife Arsinoe II
  • his great-grandson, Lysimachus one of the sons of Berenice II and Ptolemy III Euergetes who was a brother of Lysimachus of Egypt
• Lysimachus, a physician from the Greek island of Kos
• Lysimachus, a comic poet of Old Comedy
• Lysimachus of Alexandria, 1st century BCE, grammarian from Alexandria of Ancient Egypt
• Lysimachus, a King of Sicily whom the Lysimachia, a genus of flowering plants, was named after
• Lysimachus, fictional governor of Mytilene in Shakespeare's Pericles, Prince of Tyre
• Lysimachia, a city in Thrace founded by Lysimachus, King of Sicily

Lysimachus also known as Lysimachus Junior (, 297/296 BC-279 BC) was a Greek Prince from Asia Minor who was of Macedonian and Thessalian descent.