LYSIMACHUS-BODYGUARD & SUCCESSOR of ALEXANDER the GREAT PORTRAIT of ALEXANDER the GREAT with HORN of AMMON Start Price USD 0.99 Current Price USD 449.00 Time Left - Bid Count 21 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Sunday, October 05, 2008 End Time Sunday, October 12, 2008 Location Vienna See more about 'LYSIMACHUS-BODYGUARD & SUCCESSOR of ALEXANDER the GREAT' Description                                 KINGS OF THRACE. Lysimachus, 323-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.9 gm.; 30 mm.).                                                                Lysimacheia mint. Struck 297-281 BC.         Obv.: Diademed head of deified Alexander III the Great right, with horn of Ammon.      Rev.: Athena seated left, holding Nike, left elbow resting on her shield, spear behind; herm outer left, lion's head left and monogram above knee, monogram in exergue.       Thompson -; cf. Seyrig, Trésors pg. 15, 50; Müller -. Apparently unpublished. Lysimachus. Macedonian general, satrap (provincial governor), and king who, as one of the diadochoi  (“successors”) to  Alexander the Great, came to rule strategic parts of the divided Macedonian Empire.                                        Kingdom of Lysimachus Other diadochi       Kingdom of Cassander      Kingdom of Seleucus      Kingdom of Ptolemy Other      Carthage      Rome      Greek colonies Lysimachus , c.355-281 BC, Thessalian general of Alexander the Great. He was a commander in Alexander's fleet on the Hydaspes as well as his bodyguard. On Alexander's death (323 BC) Lysimachus took control of Thrace. He joined (314 BC) the other Diadochi— Cassander, Ptolemy I and Seleucus I —in the league against Antigonus I , and after the defeat of Antigonus at Ipsus, Lysimachus took W Asia Minor as his share (301 BC). In 286 BC he added Macedonia to his kingdom by defeating Pyrrhus. 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.                                                                                                                                                                                            Alexander fighting Persian king Darius III.As well as being a lover of philosophy, Lysimachus appears to have been a reasonably gifted general, although he didn’t receive many opportunities to show his talent under Alexander. Frontinus singles him out for mention (Strategems 1.5.11). Aelian, as far as his testimony can be trusted, indicates that Alexander was jealous of his strategic prowess (Varia Historia 12.16, 14.47a). He was also cruel and mean (Plutarch, Moralia, 633A–B; see also Athenaeus, Deipnosophists, 6.246e); and arrogant, albeit no more so than many others (Plutarch, Moralia, 333D-345B).                                                                       Every item offered by VIVITE LAETI is unconditionally guaranteed to be genuine & authentic. Place a Bid!