. A smaller history of Greece, from the earliest times to the Roman conquest. Coin of Demetrius Poliorcetes. Lysimachus, Seleucus, and Ptolemy now divided the empire ofAlexander between them. In Egypt the aged Ptolemy had abdi-cated in 285 in favour of his son by Berenice, afterwards known asPtolemy Philadelphus, and to the exclusion of his eldest son,Ptolemy Ceraunus, by his wife Eurydice. Ptolemy Ceraunusquitted Egypt in disgust, and fled to the court of Lysimachus; andArsinoe, the wife of Lysimachus, jealous of her stepson Agathocles,. Coin of Ptolemy I., Soter. the heir apparent to the thr
. A smaller history of Greece, from the earliest times to the Roman conquest. Coin of Demetrius Poliorcetes. Lysimachus, Seleucus, and Ptolemy now divided the empire ofAlexander between them. In Egypt the aged Ptolemy had abdi-cated in 285 in favour of his son by Berenice, afterwards known asPtolemy Philadelphus, and to the exclusion of his eldest son,Ptolemy Ceraunus, by his wife Eurydice. Ptolemy Ceraunusquitted Egypt in disgust, and fled to the court of Lysimachus; andArsinoe, the wife of Lysimachus, jealous of her stepson Agathocles,. Coin of Ptolemy I., Soter. the heir apparent to the throne, and desirous of securing thesuccession for her own children, conspired with Ptolemy Ceraunusagainst the life of Agathocles. She even procured the consent ofLysimachus to his murder ; and after some vain attempts to makeaway with him by poison, he was flung into prison, where PtolemyCeraunus despatched him with his own hand. Lysandra, the motherof Agathocles, fled with the rest of her family to Seleucus, to demand 280. ASSASSINATION OF SELEUCUS. 213 from him protection and vengeance; and Seleucus, induced bythe hopes of success, inspired by the discontent and dissensionswhich so foul an act had excited among the subjects of Lysi-machus, espoused her cause. The hostilities which ensued betweenhim and Lysimachus were brought to a termination by thebattle of Corupedion, fought near Sardis in 281, in which Lysi-machus was defeated and slain. By this victory, Macedonia, andthe whole of Alexanders empire, with the exception of
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