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In 200 BCE, King Antiochus III of Syria defeated Egypt and made the Land of Israel a part of the Seleucid Empire.

The ancient empire of King Antiochus III included the province of Judea. He was a “live and let live” sort of ruler, but his son, Antiochus IV, had other ideas.

A recent study by historian Connor Beattie, published in the Journal of Ancient History, reveals a little-known but crucial ...

The Last Great Seleucid King. In this work, military historian Taylor treats Antiochus III the Great (r. 222 BC-187 BC), who inherited the throne of a declining Seleucid Empire at about age 18 or 19, ...

A large stone on which eight letters are engraved, furnishing official documents dating to the days of King Antiochus III, a Syrian ruler who reigned between 223 to 183 B. C. E., has been dug up ...

According to Polybius, a Greek historian who wrote of the battle roughly 70 years after the event (147 BCE) in his Histories, Ptolemy was in possession of 73 elephants, Antiochus 102.Crucially ...

During these wars, Seleucid ruler Antiochus III the Great fought against Ptolemy IV Philopator, ... Ptolemy, however, was able to recover due to missteps by Antiochus and eventually won the battle.

In this presentation, I will mainly focus on Polybius’ (c. 200 – c. 118 BC) and Livy’s (64/59 BC – c. AD 17) accounts of Antiochus III the Great, Antiochus IV Epiphanes, and Demetrius I Soter.

King Antiochus III wanting to conciliate his new Jewish subjects guaranteed their right to “live according to their ancestral customs” and to continue to practice their religion in the ...