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Born 324 BCE
Died c.262 BCE or 261 BCE
Title / Office king (281BC-261BC), Seleucid Empire
Founder Apamea Cibotus
Notable Family Members father Seleucus I Nicator
Role In Syrian Wars

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Galliard, detail from a cassone panel depicting Antiochus and Stratonice, by the Stratonice Master, Sienese, 15th century; in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, Calif.
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Antiochus III the Great
Seleucid king
Antiochus II Theos
Seleucid king
Arsinoe II
queen of Thrace, Macedonia and Egypt
Antiochus IV Epiphanes
Seleucid king
Seleucus I Nicator
Seleucid ruler
Antigonus II Gonatas
king of Macedonia
Ptolemy II Philadelphus
Ptolemy II Philadelphus
Macedonian king of Egypt
Antiochus VII Sidetes
Antiochus VII Sidetes
Seleucid king
Antiochus Hierax
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Seleucus II Callinicus
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Alexander the Great
Alexander the Great
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Philip II
Philip II
king of Macedonia
Coin depicting Ptolemy I Soter
Ptolemy I Soter
Macedonian king of Egypt
Antigonus I Monophthalmus
king of Macedonia
Mithradates VI Eupator
Mithradates VI Eupator
king of Pontus
Ptolemy III Euergetes
Ptolemy III Euergetes
Macedonian king of Egypt
Ptolemy VI Philometor, portrait on a silver tetradrachm; in the British Museum
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Macedonian king of Egypt
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