Corupedium: the last Diadochi fall
281 BCE · Event
The two last survivors of Alexander's staff — Seleucus and Lysimachus, both near eighty — fight the wars' final battle at Corupedium. Lysimachus dies on the field; Seleucus, briefly master of almost everything, is assassinated within months as he crosses to claim Macedon. Forty-two years after Babylon, every man who heard 'to the strongest' is dead.
On these timelines: The Wars of the Diadochi, Ancient Greece, Alexander the Great's Conquests, Master
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