{{Short description|Disambiguation article}} thumb|Marble portrait head of an old woman, sometimes identified as Lysimache, priestess of Athena. '''Lysimache''' ({{IPAc-en|l|aɪ|ˈ|s|ɪ|m|ə|k|iː}}; {{Langx|grc|Λυσιμάχη; gen.: Λυσιμάχης|Lusimákhē|releaser of battle' or 'scattering the battle}}) is the name of three characters in Greek mythology and history: *Lysimache, daughter of Abas, son of Melampus. She married king Talaus of Argos and bore him these children: Adrastus, Mecisteus, Hippomedon, Pronax, Aristomachus, and Eriphyle.<ref>Apollodorus, [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:1.9.13 1.9.13].</ref> *Lysimache, a daughter of Priam, king of Troy.<ref>Apollodorus, [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:3.12.5 3.12.5].</ref> *Lysimache,<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Keesling |first=Catherine M. |date=2012 |title=Syeris, Diakonos of the Priestess Lysimache on the Athenian Acropolis (IG II<sup>2</sup> 3464) |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/820051 |journal=Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens |volume=81 |issue=3 |pages=467 |doi=10.2972/hesperia.81.3.0467 |url-access=subscription }}</ref> daughter of Drakontides of Bate. She was a high priestess of Athena Polias, serving as such for 64 years (430–365 BCE).
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== References == * Apollodorus, ''The Library'' with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. {{ISBN|0-674-99135-4}}. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0022 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.] [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0021 Greek text available from the same website].
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