Seleucus I Nicator
General of Alexander and founder of the Seleucid dynasty
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Lived -358–-281, aged 77
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He started as a middling officer in Alexander's army, then helped murder one regent, got driven out of Babylon by a warlord, clawed his way back with borrowed troops, and carved out the largest slice of Alexander's ruins — an empire that stretched from Syria to the edge of India.
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Seleucus commanded elite infantry under Alexander and backed the first regent after the king's death in 323 BC, earning a post at Babylon. Within two years he'd joined a conspiracy that killed that same regent in Egypt. Rewarded with Babylon as satrap in 321 BC, he was almost immediately forced to flee by Antigonus, one of the most powerful successors. He returned in 312 BC with Ptolemy's help and spent the next decade expanding east, seizing the Persian and Median lands. His claim to northwest India brought war with Chandragupta Maurya; the peace treaty in 303 BC cost him territory but gained…
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