Seleucid Empire

The Seleucid Empire (323BC – 63BC) was the largest successor state to Alexander the Great's empire. It spanned the region from modern-day Israel to the Indus River Valley, and as far north as Turkmenistan. Hellenistic culture was heavily preserved in the Seleucid empire, leading to an interesting mix of Greek mythology and Zoroastrianism as the main religions of the empire.

List of Seleucid emperors

This list was compiled by French Christian historian Nicolas Lenglet Dufresnoy in his book Tablettes chronologiques de l'histoire universelle (1745) as the Kings of Syria. It does not include data that was found after the cuneiform language was rediscovered in the XIX century. Sources digititalized by Google Books:

• French original
• English translation

#	Emperor	Start	Duration	Notes
1	Seleucus Nicator	312 BC	31
2	Antiochus Soter	282 BC	20
3	Antiochus Theos	262 BC	15
4	Seleucus II Callinicus	247 BC	20
5	Seleucus III Ceraunos	227 BC	3
6	Antiochus II The Great	224 BC	37
7	Seleucus IV Philopator	187 BC	11	Seleucus IV killed in 175 BC
8	Antiochus IV Epiphanes	176 BC	12	despoiled Jewish temple in Jerusalem
9	Antiochus V Eupator	164 BC	2	Under his guardian Lysias
10	Demetrius Soter	162 BC	11	Attacked Israel; later made a league with Jonathan against his successor
11	Alexander Bala	151 BC	5
12	Demetrius II Nicator	146 BC	1
13	Antiochus, son of Bala	145 BC	2
14	Diodotus Tryphon	143 BC	4
15	Antiochus VII Sidetes	139 BC	9
16	Demetrius II Nicator	131 BC	4	Restored
17	Alexander Zabynas	129 BC	-	The tyrant
18	Seleucus V	127 BC	1
19	Antiochus VIII Grypus	126 BC	12
20	Antiochus IX from Cyzicus	114 BC	18
21	Seleucus VI	97 BC	2	Son of Grypus
22	Antiochus X	95 BC	1	Son of Cyzicus (sic)
	Antíoco XI	94 BC		not included as king
23	Phillip, Demetrius III, Antiochus XII	93 BC		in war
24	Tigranes	84 BC	18	66 BC: Tigranes was defeated by the Romans
25	Antiochus XII	69 BC

In 63 BC, Syria becomes a Roman province.

Bibliography

• "A General Chronological Table of the Holy Bible" (1904). The Popular and Critical Bible Encyclopaedia and Scriptural Dictonary ed. Fallows, Rev. Samuel (Chicago: Howard-Severance, 1920), vol. 3, app. p. 2-37.
• Hellenistic Greek rule of Syria occurred between 323 BC and 66 BC. "Tigranes" (1911). Encyclopedia Britannica (New York: Encyclopedia Britannica), vol. 26, p. 969.

External links

• The Seleucid Empire, by Jona Lendering.