Antiochus III the Great / ænˈtaɪəkəs / (Greek: Ἀντίoχoς Μέγας; c. 241 – 3 July 187 BC, ruled April/June 222 – 3 July 187 BC) was a Macedonian Hellenistic king and the 6th ruler of the Seleucid Empire. The Roman Republic, victorious over Carthage and Macedon, met the Seleukid kingdom, which had crushed Ptolemaic Egypt. Antiochus III the Great (Ancient Greek: Ἀντίoχoς Μέγας; c. 241 – 187 BC, ruled 222–187 BC) was a Seleucid Greek king and the 6th ruler of the Seleucid Empire.

Euthydemus was defeated by Antiochus at the Battle of the Arius but after sustaining a famous siege in his capital Bactra (Balkh), he obtained an honourable pe… When the new Seleucid king, Antiochus III, moved against him from Syria, however, Molon’s forces deserted him, and the revolt ended. Antiochus again met with success.

Ascending the throne at young age, Antiochus was an ambitious ruler.

A great number of the Jews were of the opinion that Seleucid rule was to be preferred to the Egyptian, since the yoke of Egypt had been severely felt in recent years in the shape of the pitiless taxation of the Tobiads. Year 209 BC saw Antiochus in Bactria, where the Greco-Bactrian king Euthydemus I had supplanted the original rebel.

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241–187 BC, ruled 222–187 BC), younger son of Seleucus II Callinicus, became the 6th ruler of the Seleucid Empire as a youth of about eighteen in 223 BC. 2–28.

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Antiochus III was a member of the Hellenistic Seleucid dynasty. Be on the lookout for your Britannica newsletter to get trusted stories delivered right to your inbox. Bickerman, "La Charte séleucide de Jérusalem," REJ 100 (1935): 4–35.

Who was the first non-European to win a Nobel Prize? Declaring himself the "champion of Greek freedom against Roman domination", Antiochus III Seleucid Kingdom at the time of Antiochus's accession to the throne.Antiochus III inherited a disorganized state. They had no children.

Declaring himself the "champion of Greek freedom against Roman domination", Antiochus III Antiochus III inherited a disorganized state.

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They had no children. Declaring himself the "champion of Greek freedom against Roman domination", Antiochus III Antiochus III inherited a disorganized state. A great number of the Jews were of the opinion that Seleucid rule was to be preferred to the Egyptian, since the yoke of Egypt had been severely felt in recent years in the shape of the pitiless taxation of the Tobiads. Il a en effet affermi son autorité en soumettant l…

Not only had In 221 BC Antiochus at last went far east, and the rebellion of Molon and Alexander collapsed which Polybios attributes in part to his following the advice of The campaigns of 219 BC and 218 BC carried the Seleucid armies almost to the confines of the Having thus recovered the central part of Asia Minor (for the Seleucid government had perforce to tolerate the dynasties in Antiochus next, following in the steps of Alexander, crossed into the Once more Antiochus attacked the Ptolemaic province of Coele Syria and Phoenicia, and by 199 BC he seems to have had possession of it before the Aetolian leader Antiochus then moved to Asia Minor, by land and by sea, to secure the coast towns which belonged to the remnants of Ptolemaic overseas dominions and the independent Greek cities.

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