Mattathias

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Mattathias was a Jewish priest depicted in the Books of the Maccabees, and the father of Judah Maccabee, the leader of the Maccabees. Mattathias...
Eumenes II

Eumenes II

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Eumenes II of Pergamon (ruled 197 - 158 BC) was king of Pergamon and a member of the Attalid dynasty. The son of king Attalos I and queen...

Alexander

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Alexander, brother of Molon. On the accession of the Seleucid king Antiochus III, afterwards called the Great, in 223 BC, he entrusted Alexander...
Diodotus I

Diodotus I

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Diodotus, Seleucid satrap of Bactria, rebelled against Antiochus II (about 255 BC) and became the founder of the Graeco-Bactrian kingdom (Trogus,...
Demetrius Ii Nicator

Demetrius Ii Nicator

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Demetrius II (d. 125 BC), called Nicator ("Victor"), ruler of the Greek Seleucid kingdom, was the middle son of Demetrius I Soter. As a young boy,...
Eumenes I

Eumenes I

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Eumenes I of Pergamon was ruler of the city of Pergamon in Asia Minor from 263 BC until his death in 241 BC. He was the son of Eumenes, the brother...
Antiochus Hierax

Antiochus Hierax

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Antiochus Hierax, so called from his grasping and ambitious character, was a separatist ruler of the Greek Seleucid kingdom, the younger son of...
Antiochus Ix Cyzicenus

Antiochus Ix Cyzicenus

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Antiochus IX Eusebes, ruler of the Greek Seleucid kingdom, was the son of Antiochus VII Sidetes and Cleopatra Thea. Upon the death of his father in...
Ehsan Yarshater

Ehsan Yarshater

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Ehsan Yarshater (born April 3, 1920, Hamadan, Iran) is the Director of The Center for Iranian Studies and Hagop Kevorkian Professor Emeritus of...
Tigranes The Great

Tigranes The Great

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Tigranes the Great (EA: "Tigran Mets", WA: "Dikran Medz",) (ruled 95 BCE-55 BCE) (also called Tigranes II and sometimes Tigranes I) was a king of...