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* Achaeus, Seleucid general and later separatist ruler of most of Anatolia until his defeat and execution by the Seleucid king Antiochus III
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Achaeus and Seleucid
** Achaeus, Seleucid general and later separatist ruler of most of Anatolia until his defeat and execution by the Seleucid king Antiochus III
* Having recovered the central part of Anatolia from the usurper Achaeus, Antiochus III turns his forces to recover the outlying provinces to the north and east of the Seleucid kingdom.
In self-defence, Achaeus assumes the title of king and rules over the Anatolian parts of the Seleucid kingdom.
* The Seleucid king, Antiochus III, crosses the Taurus, uniting his forces with Attalus of Pergamum and, in one campaign, deprives his rebel general, Achaeus, of all his dominions and takes Sardis ( with the exception of the citadel ).
* The Seleucid forces under their general Achaeus succeed in winning back from Pergamum all the Seleucid domains in Anatolia lost six years earlier.
213 BC ), sister to Laodice III, another daughter of Mithridates II of Pontus and Laodice, wife of Seleucid general Achaeus
Only in Asia Minor, where the king's cousin, the able Achaeus, represented the Seleucid cause, did its prestige recover, driving the Pergamene power back to its earlier limits.
Andromachus was the second son of Achaeus by an unnamed Greek mother and a grandson of Seleucus I Nicator ( the founder of the Seleucid Empire ) and his first wife Apama I.
Laodice (; lived in the 3rd century BC ), wife of her cousin Seleucus II Callinicus, was, according to the express statement of Polybius, she was the daughter of Andromachus and sister of Seleucid General Achaeus.
She married her distant maternal cousin the Seleucid general Achaeus.
Achaeus and general
* Achaeus ( general ) ( died 213 BC ), grandson to the above and a relative of Antiochus III the Great who was appointed governor of all the king's provinces beyond Taurus Mountains
When Selge was attacked by Garsyeris, the general of Achaeus, in 218 BC, Logbasis, as having been guardian to Achaeus ' wife Laodice, was deputed by his countrymen to treat with the enemy, and used the opportunity to make a treacherous agreement for the surrender of the city.
Achaeus and later
They migrated from there to Haemonia ( later called Thessaly ), where they " drove out the barbarian inhabitants " and divided the country into Phthiotis, Achaia, and Pelasgiotis, named after Achaeus, Phthius and Pelasgus, " the sons of Larissa and Poseidon.
The citadel managed to hold out until 213 BC under Achaeus ' widow Laodice who surrendered later.
At the great marriage ceremony at Susa in the spring of 324 BC, Seleucus formally married Apama, and she later bore him at least two legitimate daughters, Laodice, Apama and a son Achaeus.
Achaeus and Anatolia
* In alliance with Attalus I of Pergamum, Antiochus III finally captures the rebel king of Anatolia, Achaeus, in his capital, Sardis, after a siege of two years.
* Antiochus III's commander in Anatolia, Achaeus, having recovered all the districts which Attalus of Pergamum has gained, is accused by Hermeias, the chief minister of Antiochus, of intending to revolt.
From the previous administration, Antiochus III retains Hermeias as his chief minister, Achaeus as governor of Anatolia, and Molon and his brother Alexander as governors of the eastern provinces of Media and Persis.
In 216 BC Antiochus ' army marched into western Anatolia to suppress the local rebellion led by Antiochus ' own cousin Achaeus, and had by 214 BC driven him from the field into Sardis.
Her father Achaeus was a wealthy nobleman who owned estates in Anatolia.
Achaeus and by
Clement of Alexandria mentions Phthia, a daughter of Phoroneus, who became the mother of Achaeus by Zeus.
Apollodorus mentions her as the mother and of Achaeus and Ion by her husband Xuthus ; she is presumably the mother of Xuthus ' daughter Diomede.
He had two sons by Creusa: Ion and Achaeus and a daughter named Diomede.
According to Eusebius of Caesarea ( 1. 251 ), she was a daughter of Achaeus by an unnamed Greek mother.
When Achaeus had once revolted, pushed by other circumstances, and without having made any compact with Egypt, there was the less reason to let Andromachus go.
Byzantium hoped to gain Achaeus ' support against Rhodes and its allies ; by obtaining Andromachus release the Rhodians planned to foil this design and obtain Achaeus ' benevolence.
When Achaeus fell into the power of Antiochus III ( 213 BC ), Laodice was left in possession of the citadel of Sardis, in which she held out for a time, but was quickly compelled by the dissensions among her own troops to surrender to Antiochus III.
Achaeus and king
Meanwhile Achaeus himself had revolted and assumed the title of king in Asia Minor.
He had, perhaps, before the revolt of Achaeus, tried to strike a bargain with him -— the release of Andromachus as the price of Achaeus deserting his king.
In 220 BC, Achaeus was its king.
* Antiochis, daughter of Achaeus, married to Attalus, and the mother of Attalus I, king of Pergamon
Achaeus and Antiochus
Antiochus III then has Achaeus executed.
Another of his daughters, also named Laodice, is married about the same time to Achaeus, a cousin of Antiochus.
* Achaeus ( son of Seleucus I Nicator ), son of Seleucus I Nicator and brother of Antiochus I Soter
Since, however, his power was not well enough grounded to allow an attack on Syria, Antiochus considered that he might leave Achaeus for the present and renew his attempt on Ptolemaic Syria.
Capturing Achaeus, Antiochus had him executed.
In 215 BC, in the war of Antiochus against Achaeus, we find Lagoras in the service of the former ; and it was through his discovery of an unguarded part of the wall of Sardis, that Antiochus was enabled to take the city, Lagoras being himself one of the select party who forced their way into the town over the portion of the wall in question.
Seleucid and general
Much of the eastern part of the empire was conquered by the Parthians under Mithridates I of Parthia in the mid-2nd century BC, yet the Seleucid kings continued to rule a rump state from Syria until the invasion by Armenian king Tigranes the Great and their ultimate overthrow by the Roman general Pompey.
Following the Roman general Lucullus ' defeat of both Mithridates and Tigranes in 69 BC, a rump Seleucid kingdom was restored under Antiochus XIII.
** Molon, general of the Seleucid king Antiochus III who has rebelled against his rule
** Lysias or Lusias, Seleucid general and governor of Syria and regent for Antiochus V Eupator
* 161 BC – Nicanor, Seleucid general
* Through the peace treaty of Apamea ( in Phrygia ), the Romans force the Seleucid king, Antiochus III, to surrender all his Greek and Anatolian possessions as far east as the Taurus Mountains, to pay 15, 000 talents over a period of 12 years and to surrender to Rome the former Carthaginian general Hannibal, his elephants and his fleet, and furnish hostages, including the king's eldest son, Demetrius.
* The Roman general Scipio Africanus and his brother Lucius are accused by Cato the Elder and his supporters of having received bribes from the late Seleucid king Antiochus III.
* Molon, general of the Seleucid king Antiochus III who has rebelled against his rule
* The Seleucid king, Demetrius I, on campaign in the east of his empire, leaves his general Bacchides to govern the western portion of it.
* In response to the Jewish high priest, Alcimus ', request for assistance, the Seleucid general Bacchides leads an army into Judea with the intent of reconquering this now independent kingdom.
* Demetrius I defeats and kills the rebel general Timarchus and is recognized as king of the Seleucid empire by the Roman Senate.
* The rebel Seleucid general and ruler of Media, Timarchus, who has distinguished himself by defending Media against the emergent Parthians, treats Demetrius I's violent accession to the Seleucid throne as the excuse to declare himself an independent king and extend his realm from Media into Babylonia.
* The Maccabees, led by Judas Maccabeus, and a Seleucid army, led by the Seleucid general Nicanor, fight the Battle of Adasa, near Beth-horon.
* Nicanor, Seleucid general
Judas Maccabeus lays siege to the fortress and in response, the Seleucid general and regent to the young Seleucid king Antiochus V, Lysias, approaches Jerusalem and besieges Beth-zechariah, 25 kilometres from the city.
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