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The Seleucid Empire in 200 BC (before expansion into Anatolia and Greece). A revival would begin when Seleucus II's younger son, Antiochus III the Great , took the throne in 223 BC. Although initially unsuccessful in the Fourth Syrian War against Egypt, which led to a defeat at the Battle of Raphia (217 BC), Antiochus would prove himself to be ...
Antiochus I Soter (Ancient Greek: Ἀντίοχος Σωτήρ, Antíochos Sōtér; "Antiochus the Savior"; c. 324/3 – 2 June 261 BC) was a Greek king of the Seleucid Empire. [2] Antiochus succeeded his father Seleucus I Nicator in 281 BC and reigned during a period of instability which he mostly overcame until his death on 2 June 261 BC. [3]
The Seleucid dynasty or the Seleucidae (/ s ɪ ˈ l uː s ɪ ˌ d iː /; Greek: Σελευκίδαι, Seleukídai, "descendants of Seleucus") was a Macedonian Greek royal family, which ruled the Seleucid Empire based in West Asia during the Hellenistic period.
Year 281 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Barbula and Philippus (or, less frequently, year 473 Ab urbe condita ). The denomination 281 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe ...
Stratonice or Stratonica of Syria (Ancient Greek: Στρατoνίκη, Stratoníkē, "victory of the army", c. 320 BC – 254 BC) was Queen of the Seleucid Empire from 300 BC until 294 BC and from 281 BC until 261 BC.
Seleucus II Callinicus Pogon (Greek: Σέλευκος Β΄ ὁ Καλλίνικος ὁ Πώγων; Callinicus meaning "beautifully triumphant", Pogon meaning "the Beard"; July/August 265 BC – December 225 BC [1]), [2] was a ruler of the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire, who reigned from 246 BC to 225 BC.
O. Hoover, A. Houghton & P. Vesely, "The Silver Mint of Damascus under Demetrius III and Antiochus XII (97/6 BC -83/2 BC)" in AJN Second Series 20 (2008) A. Houghton, "The Struggle for Seleucid Succession, 94-92 BC: A new tetradrachm of Antiochus XI and Philip I of Antioch", Schweizenische Numismatische Rundschau, 77 (1998)
262 BC. Antiochus I Soter, king of the Seleucid Kingdom from 281 BC (b. c. 323 BC) Acrotatus II, Agiad king of Sparta; Philemon, Athenian poet and playwright of the New Comedy (b. c. 362 BC) Zeno of Citium, Hellenistic Stoic philosopher from Citium, Cyprus (b. 333 BC) 261 BC. Antiochus I Soter, Greek king of the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire (or ...