Lysimachus (disambiguation)

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Lysimachus (Greek: Λυσίμαχος) 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