Antiochus III the Great
Sixth Seleucid emperor (223–187 BC)
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He reassembled a fracturing empire through a decade of forced marches to its edges — Bactria, Parthia, the Kabul valley — then lost half of it in four years to Rome after declaring himself the champion of Greek freedom.
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Antiochus took the Seleucid throne at eighteen in 223 BC, inheriting chaos after his brother's death. Early campaigns against Ptolemaic Egypt failed, but he spent the next decade clawing back control over central Asia Minor, Parthia, and Bactria, pushing as far as the Kabul valley and renewing ties with the Indian king Sophagasenus — exploits that earned him the epithet "the Great" and the old Persian title Basileus Megas. Returning west, he seized Coele-Syria, Phoenicia, and Judea from the Ptolemies. Then he turned toward the Greek city-states, antagonized Rome, and in 192 BC launched a war o…
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