Antiochus the Great
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- Series: Great Lives from History: The Ancient World, Prehistory-476
- Categories: Government and Politics, Royalty, Rulers, Nobility, Military History
- Subcategories: Kings, Queens, Kingdoms, Monarchy, Empires, Dynasties, Hellenistic Age, Ancient Greece
- Curriculum: Western Civilization/European History, Ancient History
Article abstract: Seleucid king (r. 223-187 b.c.e.){$I[g]Asia Minor;Antiochus the Great}{$I[g]Middle East;Antiochus the Great} Antiochus went the furthest of any of the successors of Alexander the Great toward reuniting what had once been the vast Alexandrian Empire.
Early Life
Antiochus (an-TI-uh-kuhs), who was probably born in Antioch, the capital city of the Seleucid Empire, was the younger son of Seleucus II and Laodice II. Nothing is known about his early life. When his father died in 226, his older brother, Seleucus III, fell heir to the empire and...
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