Seleucid in a sentence

Ironically, Hanukkah celebrates a rebellion by Jews against the suppression of their faith by the Seleucid Greek Empire.

During the late 3rd century BC, many battles took place between the Ptolemies, led by General Scopas in the south, and two Seleucid armies in the north, one led by Antiochus the Younger and the other by Antiochus III.

This timespan, from the point of view of the region of Judah, takes in Ptolemaic, Seleucid, and finally Hasmonean rule.

Also known as the Festival of Lights, Hanukkah commemorates the 2nd century BC victory of Judah Maccabee and his followers in a revolt in Judea against armies of the Seleucid Empire.

Archaeologists recently unearthed part of a Seleucid fortress built by the Hellenistic king Antiochus IV Epiphanes; a large villa from the Roman Era; as well as coins and other smaller items.

After Jannaeus succeeded early in the war, the rebels asked for Seleucid assistance.

After the death of Alexander in 323 BC, Damascus became the site of a struggle between the Seleucid and Ptolemaic empires.

Alexander Jannaeus was the first of the Jewish kings to introduce the "eight-ray star" or "eight-spoked wheel" symbol, in his bronze "Widow's mite" coins, in combination with the widespread Seleucid numismatic symbol of the anchor.

Although initially unsuccessful in the Fourth Syrian War against Egypt, which led to a defeat at the Battle of Raphia (217 BC), Antiochus would prove himself to be the greatest of the Seleucid rulers after Seleucus I himself.

Antiochus appeared, at the least, to have restored the Seleucid Kingdom to glory.

Antiochus IV Epiphanes succeeded his older brother to the Seleucid throne and immediately adopted his father's previous policy of universal Hellenisation.

Antiochus Sidetes is sometimes called the last great Seleucid king.

Demetrius I attempted to restore Seleucid power in Judea particularly, but was overthrown in 150 BC by Alexander Balas – an impostor who (with Egyptian backing) claimed to be the son of Epiphanes.

Division of the empire main Kingdoms of the Diadochi in 281 BC: the Ptolemaic Kingdom (dark blue), the Seleucid Empire (yellow), Kingdom of Pergamon (orange), and Kingdom of Macedon (green).

Grant, The History of Rome, p. 119 The situation was made worse by the fact that Hannibal was now a chief military advisor to the Seleucid emperor, and the two were believed to be planning an outright conquest not just of Greece, but of Rome itself.

However, these Judean rebels ultimately decided that it was better to live under a terrible Jewish king than backtrack to a Seleucid ruler.

However, the term lingered until the Seleucid period, after which it disappeared, but was used only in relation to a socio-economic class of astrologers, and not a race of people or land.

In 167 BCE, the Jews rose up en masse behind Mattathias and his five sons to fight and win their freedom from Seleucid authority.

In respect of time they fall in two distinct groups: one from the First Babylonian Dynasty period (1830–1531 BC), the other mainly Seleucid from the last three or four centuries BC.

In Seleucid and Parthian times, the astronomical reports were of a thoroughly scientific character; how much earlier their advanced knowledge and methods were developed is uncertain.