Lysimachus (Greek: Λυσίμαχος, Lysimachos; 360 BCE - 281 BCE) was a Macedonian officer and diadochus (for example "successor") of Alexander the Great, who became a basileus ("king") in 306 BCE, ruling Thrace, Asia Minor and Macedonia. Early career Son of the Thessalian Agathocles from Crannon, Lysimachus was born in 360 BCE in Pella, Macedon. During Alexander's Persian campaigns he was one of his immediate bodyguard and distinguished… (More on Lysimachus)