Lysandra

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Lysandra (in Greek Λυσανδρα; lived 3rd century BC) was daughter of Ptolemy I Soter and Eurydice, the daughter of Antipater. She was married first to Alexander, the son of Cassander, king of Macedonia, and after his death to Agathocles, the son of Lysimachus.¹ By this second marriage (which took place, according to Pausanias, after the return of Lysimachus from his expedition against the Getae, 291 BC) she had several children, with whom she fled to Asia after the murder of her husband by Lysimachus, at the instigation of Arsinoe, and besought assistance from Seleucus. The latter in consequence marched against Lysimachus, who was defeated and slain in the battle of Corupedium, 281 BC. From an expression of Pausanias, it appears that Lysandra must at this time have accompanied Seleucus, and was possessed of much influence, but in the confusion that followed the death of Seleucus a few months after there is no further record either of her or her children.²

[edit] References

Smith, William (editor); Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, "Lysandra", Boston, (1867)

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¹ George Syncellus, Ekloge chronographias; Eusebius, Chronicon, pag. 231; Pausanias, Description of Greece, i. 9; Plutarch, Parallel Lives, "Demetrius", 31,

² Pausanias, i. 10

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870).