• General Notes

  Note: Antiochus II, called Theos ("the divine") (circa 287-246 bc),king of Syria (261-246 bc), son and successor of Antiochus I.The citizens of Miletus, in Asia Minor, called him Theos afterhe freed them from the tyrant Timarchus (flourished 3d centurybc) in 258 bc. Having fought a long and costly war (260-255 bc)against Ptolemy II, king of Egypt, Antiochus won back most ofthe territories his father had lost, only to be defeated in 250bc by his own satrap, or provincial governor, Diodotus I(reigned about 256-235 bc), who seized the Syrian province ofBactria. Subsequently, Antiochus also lost the province ofParthia to the Parthian dynasty of the Arsacids.
  
      * Married: in Bef 265 BC
      * Marriage fact: in Abt. 253 BC, In order to marry Ptolemy's daughers as settlement of the war with Egypt.
      * Marriage Ending Status: Divorce

Details of "the Divine"'s family with Laodice II of Syria