Ask the Chatbot Games & Quizzes History & Society Science & Tech Biographies Animals & Nature Geography & Travel Arts & Culture ProCon Money Videos

Antiochus Hierax: Quick Facts

Written and fact-checked by
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

The Information Architects maintain a master list of the topics included in the corpus of  Encyclopædia Britannica, and create and manage the relationships between them.
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

Facts

Flourished 263 BCE - 226 BCE
Role In War of the Brothers
Seleucid king of the Hellenistic Syrian Empire
Antiochus III the Great
Seleucid king
default image
Antiochus IV Epiphanes
Seleucid king
Seleucus I Nicator
Seleucus I Nicator
Seleucid ruler
Antiochus VII Sidetes
Antiochus VII Sidetes
Seleucid king
Detail from Charles Le Brun's painting showing Alexander the Great in profile, wearing a gold helmet with white plumes and a blue cloak, with soldiers in the background.
Alexander the Great
king of Macedonia
Philip II
Philip II
king of Macedonia
Coin depicting Ptolemy I Soter
Ptolemy I Soter
Macedonian king of Egypt
default image
Antigonus II Gonatas
king of Macedonia
default image
Antiochus I Soter
Seleucid king
Ptolemy VI Philometor, portrait on a silver tetradrachm; in the British Museum
Ptolemy VI Philometor
Macedonian king of Egypt
Attalus I Soter
Attalus I Soter
king of Pergamum
default image
Eumenes II
king of Pergamum
default image
Antiochus II Theos
Seleucid king
default image
Samuel
tsar of western Bulgaria
default image
Demetrius II
king of Macedonia
default image
Craterus
Macedonian general
default image
Narses
Syrian theologian
Genghis Khan
Genghis Khan
Mongolian warrior-ruler
Alexander I
Alexander I
emperor of Russia
default image
Scipio Africanus the Younger
Roman general