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Ipsus, battle of

Years: 301BCE - 301BCE

The Battle of Ipsus is fought between some of the Diadochi (the successors of Alexander the Great) in 301 BCE near the village of that name in Phrygia.

Antigonus I Monophthalmus and his son Demetrius I of Macedon are pitted against the coalition of three other companions of Alexander: Cassander, ruler of Macedon; Lysimachus, ruler of Thrace; and Seleucus I Nicator, ruler of Babylonia and Persia.

"{Readers} take infinitely more pleasure in knowing the variety of incidents that are contained in them, without ever thinking of imitating them, believing the imitation not only difficult, but impossible: as if heaven, the sun, the elements, and men should have changed the order of their motions and power, from what they were anciently"

― Niccolò Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy (1517)