ABSTRACT
After the battle of Corupedion in 281, at which Lysimachos lost his life (as Antigonos Cyclops, the One-Eyed, had done twenty years earlier at Ipsos) the empire of Alexander was eventually divided into three parts: Macedonia, ruled by the Antigonid dynasty, descendants of Antigonos Cyclops; Egypt, under the Ptolemies (Ptolemy I Soter was the son of Lagos); and finally Syria, where the Seleucid kings reigned, alternatively taking the name of Seleucos or Antiochos.
