Antigonus Monophthalmus is killed by javelins during the Battle of Ipsus.

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Related Conflict :	Battle of Ipsus
Perpetrator (Group) :	Army of Lysimachus Origin: Mixed, Age: adult, Activity: soldier Army of Seleucus I Origin: Mixed, Age: adult, Activity: soldier
Victim (Person) :	Antigonus Monophthalmus Origin: Macedonian, Age: old, Activity: commander/general, Direct Consequence: death
Third Party (Person) :	Lysimachus Origin: Macedonian, Age: old, Activity: commander/general Seleucus I Nicator Origin: Macedonian, Age: adult, Activity: commander/general Thorax Origin: Thessalian, Age: adult, Activity: soldier, Reaction: fight back
Third Party (Group) :	Army of Antigonus Monophthalmus Origin: Mixed, Age: adult, Activity: soldier, Reaction: flight Friends of Antigonus Monophthalmus Origin: Mixed, Age: adult, Activity: soldier, Reaction: flight
Level :	intersocial
Source :	Plutarch, Demetrius 29.5Plutarch Demetrius 29.5 Paste CTS-Link
Location :	Ipsos (Ipsus)
Time Periode :	Hellenistic Greece
Century :	4 B.C.
Year :	301 B.C.
Context :	battle war/military campaign
Motivation :	political tactical/strategical
Application :	throwing weapon
Weapon :	javelin
Long-Term Consequence :	conquest treaty/agreement/pact
Original Text :	καὶ τοῦτο μέχρι παντὸς ἐλπίζων καὶ περισκοπῶν τὸν υἱὸν ἅμα πολλῶν ἀκοντισμάτων εἰς αὐτὸν ἀφεθέντων ἔπεσε: καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ἀπολιπόντων ὀπαδῶν καὶ φίλων μόνος παρέμεινε τῷ νεκρῷ Θώραξ ὁ Λαρισσαῖος.
Translation :	This was his hope to the last, and to the last he kept watching eagerly for his son; then a whole cloud of javelins were let fly at him and lie fell. The rest of his friends and attendants abandoned him, and one only remained by his dead body, Thorax of Larissa.
Edition :	Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1920. 9.
Remark :	long-term consequence: The empire of Antigonus is divided among his victorious enemies. This is mentioned in 30.1.
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