Lysimacheia
From LSJ
Καὶ μὴν ὑπεραποθνῄσκειν γε μόνοι ἐθέλουσιν οἱ ἐρῶντες, οὐ μόνον ὅτι ἄνδρες, ἀλλὰ καὶ αἱ γυναῖκες. → After all, it is only those in love who are actually willing to die for another — not just men, but women as well. (Plato, Symposium 179b)
Wikipedia EN
Lysimachia or Lysimacheia or Lysimachea may refer to:
- Lysimachia (Thrace), a town of ancient Thrace, now in Turkey. Lysimachia (Greek: Λυσιμάχεια) was an important Hellenistic Greek town on the north-western extremity of the Thracian Chersonese (the modern Gallipoli peninsula) in the neck where the peninsula joins the mainland in what is now the European part of Turkey, not far from the bay of Melas (the modern Gulf of Saros).
- Lysimachia (Aetolia), a town of ancient Aetolia, Greece
- Lysimachia (Mysia), a town of ancient Mysia, now in Turkey
- Lake Lysimachia, a lake in Aetolia-Acarnania, Greece
