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Born c.217 BCE
Died 175 BCE
Title / Office king (187BC-175BC), Seleucid Empire
Antiochus III
Antiochus III the Great
Seleucid king
Antiochus IV Epiphanes
Seleucid king
Seleucus I Nicator
Seleucid ruler
Antiochus I Soter
Seleucid king
Ptolemy VI Philometor, portrait on a silver tetradrachm; in the British Museum
Ptolemy VI Philometor
Macedonian king of Egypt
Antiochus VII Sidetes
Antiochus VII Sidetes
Seleucid king
Antiochus Hierax
Seleucid king
Antiochus II Theos
Seleucid king
Seleucus II Callinicus
Seleucid ruler
Demetrius I, coin, 2nd century bc; in the British Museum
Demetrius I Soter
king of Syria
Alexander Balas
king of Syria
Demetrius II, coin, 2nd century BC; in the British Museum
Demetrius II Nicator
king of Syria
Soter Seleucus III
Seleucid ruler
Andragoras
Seleucid satrap of Parthia
Saint Cyril
Christian theologian
Saint Methodius
Christian theologian
Alexander the Great
Alexander the Great
king of Macedonia
Philip II
Philip II
king of Macedonia
Cleopatra
Cleopatra
queen of Egypt
Coin depicting Ptolemy I Soter
Ptolemy I Soter
Macedonian king of Egypt

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