• Thumbnail for Antiochus IV Epiphanes
    was a son of King Antiochus III the Great. Originally named Mithradates (alternative form Mithridates), he assumed the name Antiochus after he ascended...
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  • Look up Antiochus in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Antiochus is a Greek male first name, which was a dynastic name for rulers of the Seleucid Empire...
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    under the name Antiochus, his brother Seleucus III Ceraunus, upon the latter's murder in Anatolia; he was in Babylon at the time. Antiochus III inherited...
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    Antiochus I Soter (Greek: Ἀντίοχος Σωτήρ, Antíochos Sōtér; "Antiochus the Savior"; c. 324/3 – 2 June 261 BC) was a Greek king of the Seleucid Empire....
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    along with the goddess Commagene and also even Antiochus himself represented in a deified status. Antiochus was one of the last rulers of a Persian-Macedonian...
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    European portions of Alexander's empire. Antiochus I (reigned 281–261 BC) and his son and successor Antiochus II Theos (reigned 261–246 BC) were faced...
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    Aetolian League triggered a small war which drew in Antiochus, Rome and the Seleucids came to blows. Antiochus' landed in Greece but was forced to retreat across...
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    Antiochus II Theos (Greek: Ἀντίοχος ὁ Θεός, Antíochos ho Theós, meaning "Antiochus the God"; 286 – July 246 BC) was a Greek king of the Hellenistic Seleucid...
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  • Thumbnail for Antiochus VIII Grypus
    his half-brother Antiochus IX. Antiochus VIII's wife, the Ptolemaic Egyptian princess Tryphaena, had her sister and the wife of Antiochus IX, the former...
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    Parthians. Antiochus IX was killed in 95 BC at the hands of Seleucus VI, the son of his half-brother and rival Antiochus VIII. Antiochus X then went...
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    offspring was Antiochus IX, who thus became both half-brother and cousin to Seleucus V and Antiochus VIII. In his nine-year reign, Antiochus made some effort...
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    Antiochus (Greek: Ἀντίοχος; c. 180 – 170 BC) was a Hellenistic monarch of the Seleucid Empire reigning between 175 and 170 BC. Antiochus' year of birth...
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    and Antiochus VII Sidetes. She ruled Syria from 125 BC after the death of Demetrius II Nicator, eventually in co-regency with her son Antiochus VIII...
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    between 87 and 82 BC. The youngest son of Antiochus VIII and, most likely, his Egyptian wife Tryphaena, Antiochus XII lived during a period of civil war...
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    Lysias as regent. Antiochus V was only nine years old when he succeeded to the kingship, following the death in Persia of his father Antiochus IV Epiphanes...
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  • was a close friend of Antiochus, and from the later biographer Plutarch in his Life of Lucullus and Life of Cicero. Antiochus was born in the late 1st...
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    out in the Seleucid Empire between Seleucus II Callinicus and Antiochus Hierax. Antiochus Hierax made alliances with other kings in Asia Minor, his base...
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  • Laodice I (redirect from Antiochus labiorum)
    Laodice I married her paternal first cousin Antiochus II Theos before 266 BC as his first wife. She married Antiochus II before he was the heir to the Seleucid...
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    Antiochus IX Eusebes Cyzicenus (Greek: Ἀντίοχος Εὐσεβής Κυζικηνός, "Antiochus the Pious, the Cyzicene") was a ruler of the Hellenistic Seleucid kingdom...
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  • Thumbnail for Antiochus IV of Commagene
    "Epiphanes" means "the Glorious". Antiochus was born a prince of the royal family of Commagene. His parents King Antiochus III of Commagene and Queen Iotapa...
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    Ios. Ant. 13. 218; Liv. per. 55. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Antiochus VI. Antiochus VI entry in historical sourcebook by Mahlon H. Smith...
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    restoration under his second son and eventual successor, Antiochus III. After the death of his father, Antiochus II in July 246 BC, Seleucus was proclaimed king...
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    penultimate ruler of the Seleucid kingdom. Antiochus took the throne after the death of his father, king Antiochus X Eusebes, sometime between 92 and 85 BC...
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    son of Antiochus VIII and his wife Tryphaena. Antiochus XI's early life was a time of constant civil war between his father and his uncle Antiochus IX. The...
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    captured. Alexander II was probably executed by Antiochus VIII in 123 BC, ending the line of Antiochus IV. The death of the Seleucid king Seleucus IV in...
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  • Thumbnail for Hanukkah
    Armies of the Seleucid King Antiochus III (Antiochus the Great) oust Ptolemy V from Judea and Samaria. 175 BCE: Antiochus IV (Epiphanes) ascends the Seleucid...
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  • Aurelian punished the city severely, but is said to have spared Antiochus.: 152  Antiochus claimed to be descended from Queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt and...
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  • Thumbnail for Heliconius antiochus
    Heliconius antiochus, the Antiochus longwing, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It was described by Carl Linnaeus in 1767. It is found from Panama...
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  • Eleans—an affront which Antiochus resented by refusing the presents of the king. The ancient writer Xenophon wrote that this Antiochus had conquered the ancient...
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  • Thumbnail for Antiochus Hierax
    238, Antiochus and his Galatians allies attacked Pergamon but had to face its powerful ruler Attalus I. Attalus defeated the Gauls and Antiochus at the...
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