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Family Subtree Diagram : Descendants of Arrhabaeus of Lyncestae

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Antiochus II Theos (286-246 BC reigned 261 - 246 BC), whose mother was the Macedonian princess Stratonice, daughter of Demetrius Poliorcetes succeeded his father Antiochus I Soter as head of the Seleucid dynasty on 261 BC.

He inherited a state of war with Egypt, which went on along the coasts of Asia Minor (the "Second Syrian War"). Antiochus also made some attempt to get a footing in Thrace. During the war he was given the title "Theos" which means "God" in Greek.

About 250 BC peace was concluded between Antiochus and Ptolemy II, Antiochus repudiating his wife Laodice and marrying Ptolemy's daughter Berenice, but by 246 BC Antiochus had left Berenice and her infant son in Antioch to live again with Laodice in Asia Minor.

Laodice poisoned him and proclaimed her son Seleucus II Callinicus (reigned 246-225 BC) king.

This entry is based on one from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica. ABT 0286 BC Laodice 0358 BC - 0297 BC Cassander Cassander was one of the diadochoi ("successors"), the Macedonian generals who fought over the empire of Alexander the Great after his death in 323 ABT 0320 BC - AFT 0267 BC Achaeus Aesopia Jul 0356 BC - 0323 BC Alexander King of Macedonia

Born Alexander III in Pella, Macedon, he was the son of King Philip II of Macedon and Epirote princess Olympias. According to several legends, Olympias was impregnated not by Philip, who was afraid of her and her affinity for sleeping in the company of snakes, but by Zeus. One legend claims that both Phillip and Olympias dreamt of their son's future birth. Olympias dreamt of a loud burst of thunder and that lightening had hit her womb. In Philip's dream, he was sealing her womb with the seal of the lion. Arixstandros determined that the child would have the character of lion. Aware of these legends and of their political usefulness, Alexander was wont to refer to his father as Zeus, rather than as Philip. According to Plutarch, his father descended from Heracles through Caranus and his mother descended from Aeacus through Neoptolemus.

North and east of classical Greece, Macedon was regarded by most Greeks as foreign and semi-barbarian. Olympias herself was from Epirus, another semi-Greek state to the northwest of the Greek peninsula.

Philip selected Aristotle to tutor young Alexander, and their relationship lasted throughout Alexander's life; even after the execution of his nephew, Callisthenes, Aristotle continued to receive presents (plant specimens) from the king.

In 336 BC, he succeeded his father on the throne. Philip's assassination, although perpetrated by a disgruntled young man (Pausanias) who had been one of Philip's lovers, is thought to have been planned with the knowledge and possible involvement of either or both Alexander or Olympias. D. 0336 BC Philip King of Macedonia D. 0316 BC Olympias ABT 0420 BC - ABT 0370 BC Amyntas King of Macedonia Eurydice Lyncestis Sirras of Lyncestae 0265 BC - 0226 BC Seleucus Callinicus King of Syria

Seleucus II Callinicus or Pogon (the epithets meaning "beautiful victor" and "bearded", respectively) reigned from 246 to 225 BC as head of the Seleucid dynasty. He was proclaimed king by his mother, Laodice, whilst her partisans at Antioch made away with Berenice and her son.

Berenice's brother, Ptolemy III, who had just succeeded to the Egyptian throne, at once invaded the Seleucid realm and marched victoriously to the Tigris or beyond, receiving the submission of the eastern provinces, whilst his fleets swept the coasts of Asia Minor.

In the interior of Asia Minor Seleucus maintained himself, and when Ptolemy returned to Egypt he recovered Northern Syria and the nearer provinces of Iran. In Asia Minor his younger brother Antiochus Hierax was put up against him by a party to which Laodice herself adhered.

At Ancyra (about 235 BC) Seleucus sustained a crushing defeat and left the country beyond the Taurus to his brother and the other powers of the peninsula. He then undertook an anabasis to regain Parthia, the results of which however came to nothing. According to some sources, he was even taken prisoner for several years by the Parthian king.

In Asia Minor, Pergamum now rose to greatness under Attalus I, and Antiochus Hierax, after a failed attempt to his brother's dominions when his own were vanishing, perished as a fugitive in Thrace in 228 BC/227 BC.

About a year later Seleucus was killed by a fall from his horse. He was succeeded by his elder son, Seleucus III Ceraunus and later by his younger son Antiochus III the Great.

This entry is based on one from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica. ABT 0265 BC Laodice ABT 0285 BC Andromachus Lanassa D. 0283 BC Agathocles Tyrant of Syracuse

# Event: Tyrant of Syracuse Acceded 317 BC
# Event: King of Syracuse Acceded 305 BC D. 0221 BC Ptolemy III Euergetes I Pharoah of Egypt 0270 BC Berenice 0308 BC - 0249 BC Ptolemy Philadelphos Pharoah of Egypt Arsinoe ABT 0340 BC - 0285 BC Ptolemy Soter Pharoah of Egypt Arsinoe 0318 BC/0325 BC Megas Apama 0354 BC Lagus Theoxina 0340 BC - 0275 BC Berenice Thessalonica Philip 0287 BC - 0246 BC Antiochus Theos 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 Generated by GenoPro®. Click here for details.