Topic

Ipsus, battle of

Subject Violence 301 BCE

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.