The Seleucid Empire, which the Maccabees ... Without these values, even the greatest victories can unravel. Syria now stands at a similar crossroads. Its future depends on avoiding the same ...

allowing it to reclaim its place in the cultural landscape. Laodicea holds an important place in history. Founded on the site of an earlier city by Antiochus II, king of the Seleucid Empire ...

Part three deals with the internal workings of the empire, both in its government and commerce, and the final part looks a the impressive Seleucid efforts at city-building, which proved an important ...