| After eleven days of skirmishing and manoeuvre, in which the Romans gradually moved closer to the Seleucid camp, Antiochus was forced to fight. |
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| His reign was marked by continuous military campaigns to reconsolidate the Seleucid empire. |
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| Whether this is the right place for his scholarly discussion of the influence of Seleucid predecessors on Agrippa's temple is debatable. |
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| Yochanan and his five sons began a rebellion in Modiin, first against their Hellenist co-religionists and afterwards against the Seleucid empire itself. |
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| They sided with the renegade Seleucid prince Antiochus Hierax, who reigned in Asia Minor. |
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| The great centers of Hellenistic culture were Alexandria and Antioch, capitals of Ptolemaic Egypt and Seleucid Syria respectively. |
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| The Chinese subsequently sent numerous embassies, around ten every year, to these countries and as far as Seleucid Syria. |
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| Following the premature death of Alexander, Iran came under the control of the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire. |
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| After defeating the Macedonian and Seleucid Empires in the 2nd century BC, the Romans became the dominant people of the Mediterranean Sea. |
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| Macedonia and the Seleucid Empire agreed to an alliance to conquer and divide Egypt. |
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| With Egypt and Macedonia weakened, the Seleucid Empire made increasingly aggressive and successful attempts to conquer the entire Greek world. |
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| In the late 4th century BC, Alexander the Great conquered the region, putting it under Hellenistic Seleucid rule for over two centuries. |
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| Seleucid people were completely familiar with Greek culture and attempted to Hellenize eastern world. |
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| Between 625 BC and 226 AD, the northern side was dominated by a succession of Persian empires including the Median, Achaemenid, Seleucid and Parthian empires. |
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| Megasthenes was born in Asia Minor and became an ambassador of Seleucus I Nicator of the Seleucid dynasty to Chandragupta Maurya in Pataliputra, India. |
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