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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 ...
Map The Kingdom of the Diadochis after the battle of Corupedio The two men had been rivals for a long time as Lysimachus wished to expand his influence east, while Seleucus wished to expand his influence west, however, the event that actually started the war was the murder of Agathocles .
Laodice I married her paternal first cousin Antiochus II Theos before 266 BC as his first wife. [8] She married Antiochus II before he was the heir to the Seleucid throne. [9] When her paternal uncle Antiochus I Soter died in 261 BC, Antiochus II succeeded his father. Through her marriage, Laodice I became a Seleucid queen.
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 ...
283 BC. Demetrius I Poliorcetes, King of Macedonia (b. 336 BC) 282 BC. Ptolemy I Soter, Macedonian military general who served under Alexander the Great and became ruler of Egypt (born c.367) [6] 281 BC. Lysimachus, king of Thrace and Macedonia (b. c. 360 BC) [7] Seleucus I Nicator, founder of the Seleucid Empire [4] (b. c. 354 BC) [8] 280 BC