See also
Husband: | Antiochus III + HIERAX (286-226) | |
Wife: | Laodice III + (281- ) | |
Children: | Antiochis + (227- ) | |
Cleopatra I + (220- ) |
Name: | Antiochus III + HIERAX | |
Sex: | Male | |
Father: | Seleucus II + (261- ) | |
Mother: | Laodice II + of SYRIA (255- ) | |
Birth | 0286 B.C. | |
Occupation | King of Syria | |
Title | King of Syria | |
Death | 0226 B.C. (age 59-60) | |
Cause: killed by robbers |
Name: | Laodice III + | |
Sex: | Female | |
Father: | Mithridates II + (251- ) | |
Mother: | Laodice + of PONTUS (259- ) | |
Birth | 0281 B.C. | |
Occupation | Princess of Pontus | |
Title | Princess of Pontus |
Name: | Antiochis + | |
Sex: | Female | |
Spouse: | Xerxes I (240- ) | |
Birth | 0227 B.C. | |
Occupation | Princess of Syria | |
Title | Princess of Syria |
Name: | Cleopatra I + | |
Sex: | Female | |
Spouse: | Ptolemy V + (235- ) | |
Birth | 0220 B.C. | |
Occupation | Princess of Syria | |
Title | Princess of Syria |
Antiochus Hierax (or Antiochus III, (killed c.226 BC), so called from his grasping and ambitious character[1], was the younger son of Antiochus II and Laodice I and separatist leader in the Hellenistic Seleucid kingdom, who ruled as king of Syria during his brother's reign.
On the death of his father, in 246 BCE, Antiochus waged war on his brother Seleucus II Callinicus, in order to seize Anatolia for himself as an independent kingdom. This war lasted for many years, but Antiochus was at of length entirely defeated, chiefly through the efforts of Attalus, king of Pergamon, who drove him out of Anatolia. Antiochus subsequently fled to Egypt where he was killed by robbers in 226 BC.[2]
He married a daughter of Ziaelas, king of Bithynia.[3]