General Notes

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Birth: in 265 BC 1
Death: in 225 BC 2
Death: in 226 BC 1
Event: Ancestor M
Event: Ruled 246 - 225 BC, Seleucid King of Syria 1 2
Note:
Seleucus II CALLINICUS (d. 225 BC), fourth king (reigned 246-225) of the
Seleucid dynasty, son of Antiochus II Theos.
Antiochus II repudiated his wife Laodice (Seleucus' mother) and married
Ptolemy's daughter Berenice, but by 246 BC Antiochus had left Berenice in
order to live again with Laodice and Seleucus in Asia Minor. Laodice
poisoned him and proclaimed her son as King Seleucus II, while her
partisans at Antioch made away with Berenice. Berenice's brother, Ptolemy
III, who had just succeeded to the Egyptian throne, at once invaded the
Seleucid realm and annexed the eastern provinces, while 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. At Ancyra (about 235?)
Seleucus was defeated by his younger brother Antiochus Hierax, supported
by Laodice, and left the country beyond the Taurus to his brother and the
other powers of the peninsula. Of these Pergamum rose to greatness under
Attalus I, and Antiochus Hierax perished as a fugitive in Thrace in 228
or 227. A year later Seleucus was killed by a fall from his horse.