Antiochus Hierax

Antiochus Hierax (Greek: Ἀντίoχoς Ἱέραξ, transl. “Hawk”), 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 c. 226 BC.

He married a daughter of Ziaelas, king of Bithynia, born c. 245 BC.^[2]

Notes

^ Plutarch, Sayings of Kings and Commanders, p.184; On Brotherly Love, p.489
^ Justin, Epitome of Pompeius Trogus, xxvii. 2-3; Polyaenus, Stratagemata, iv. 17; Eusebius, Chronicon (Schoene ed.), pag. 251; Pompeius Trogus, Prologi, 27;

References

William Smith, ed (1867) [1844]. "“Antiochus Hierax”". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 1. Boston: Little, Brown, and Co.. p. 194. http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0203.html. Retrieved 23 September 2010.

External links

Antiochus Hierax, article in historical sourcebook by Mahlon H. Smith
Antiochus Hierax, list of sources at attalus.org

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870).

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