Alexander (son of Lysimachus)

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Alexander ( Greek  Ἀλέξανδρος , Aléxandros ; † probably 277 BC or shortly thereafter) was a son of the Diadoch ruler Lysimachos . He had a half-brother of the same name, a son of Lysimachus and Amastris .

His mother was an Odrysian woman who was his father's mistress . When his half-brother Agathocles 283/282 BC Was executed by his father, Alexander fled with his sister-in-law Lysandra to the court of Seleucus , who died in the subsequent battle of Kurupedion in 281 BC. BC Lysimachus killed. Alexander hid his father's body and buried him in a place between Lysimacheia and Paktye on the Thracian Chersonese .

In the turmoil of the Celtic storm , Alexander probably officiated in 277 BC. BC briefly as the ruler of Macedonia , provided that he was identical to the person of the same name mentioned by Diodorus . After Kurupedion he could have come to Macedonia in the wake of Ptolemy Keraunos .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Polyainos , Stratagemata 6, 12.
  2. ↑ Pausanias , Helládos Periēgēsis 1, 10, 4-5; Appian , Syriake 64.
  3. ↑ Diodorus 22, 4.
personal data
SURNAME Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Son of Lysimachus, ruler of Macedon
DATE OF BIRTH 4th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH uncertain: 277 BC Chr.