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* 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.
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* Following Antiochus III's defeat by the Romans, the two Armenian satraps of Antiochus III's, Artaxias and Zariadres, declare themselves independent of the Seleucids.
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Antiochus and Anatolia
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* 187 BC – Antiochus III the Great, Seleucid king of the Hellenistic Syrian Empire from 223 BC, who has rebuilt the empire in the East but failed in his attempt to challenge Roman ascendancy in Greece and Anatolia ( b. c. 241 BC )
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* 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.
* Achaeus, Seleucid general and later separatist ruler of most of Anatolia until his defeat and execution by the Seleucid king Antiochus III
* Timarchus, Seleucid nobleman, possibly from Miletus in Anatolia, appointed governor of Media in western Iran by the Seleucid king Antiochus IV Epiphanes and who has rebelled against his successor, Demetrius I Soter, until he is killed in a battle with Demetrius ' forces
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* Seleucus II Callinicus ' mother, Laodice attempts to take control over the Seleucid Empire by insisting that Seleucus II make his younger brother, Antiochus Hierax, co-regent and give him all the Seleucid territory in Anatolia.
* King Attalus I Soter of Pergamum defeats Antiochus Hierax ( brother of the Seleucid king Seleucus II ) in three battles and thereby gains control over all the Seleucid domains in Anatolia except Cilicia in the southeast.
* Seleucus II's brother Antiochus Hierax, who is governor of Seleucid Anatolia, sends an army into Syria ostensibly to assist Seleucus but actually to seize the rest of the empire.
Antiochus II regains much of Anatolia from Ptolemy II, including the cities of Miletus and Ephesus, and also the Phoenician coast.
He opens hostilities against his half brother Ptolemy II, by declaring his province of Cyrenaica to be independent and then attacks Egypt from the west as Antiochus I takes the Egyptian controlled areas in coastal Syria and southern Anatolia, after which he attacks Palestine.
Antiochus and Achaeus
Antiochus III then has Achaeus executed.
* 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 ).
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
* 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
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.
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.
Capturing Achaeus, Antiochus had him executed.
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.
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.
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