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Ένας βασιλιάς που δολοφονήθηκε από πρόσφυγ - ΣΕΛΕΥΚΟΣ Α Ο ΝΙΚΑΤΩΡ
Seleukos I Nikator [Σέλευκος Νικάτωρ]. He is the founder of the Seleucid Empire. He is also a Macedonian general and an officer of Alexander the Great. The Seleucid Empire was one of the greatest powers of the Hellenistic world until it was defeated by the Roman Republic and the Parthian Empire in the late 2nd and early 1st century BC.
Philetairos [Φιλέταιρος] and other cities and rulers of western Asia Minor invited Seleukos to march west and destroy his sometime ally, Lysimachos, who had made himself very unpopular in the region.
Seleukos acquiesced to this request, defeating and killing Lysimachos [Λυσίμαχος] at the Battle of Korupedion. This victory gained for Seleucus all of Lysimacus’ former territory in Asia Minor and Thrace, but he was not able to savour this triumph for long.
Later in the year, as he marched through Thrace, Seleucus was murdered by a refugee from the Ptolemaic court. While elephants and horses could make or break kingdoms, neither was proof against the assassin’s dagger.
Click for more coin images of the Seleukos I Nikator.
Seleukos I Nikator [Σέλευκος Νικάτωρ]. He is the founder of the Seleucid Empire. He is also a Macedonian general and an officer of Alexander the Great. The Seleucid Empire was one of the greatest powers of the Hellenistic world until it was defeated by the Roman Republic and the Parthian Empire in the late 2nd and early 1st century BC.
Philetairos [Φιλέταιρος] and other cities and rulers of western Asia Minor invited Seleukos to march west and destroy his sometime ally, Lysimachos, who had made himself very unpopular in the region.
Seleukos acquiesced to this request, defeating and killing Lysimachos [Λυσίμαχος] at the Battle of Korupedion. This victory gained for Seleucus all of Lysimacus’ former territory in Asia Minor and Thrace, but he was not able to savour this triumph for long.
Later in the year, as he marched through Thrace, Seleucus was murdered by a refugee from the Ptolemaic court. While elephants and horses could make or break kingdoms, neither was proof against the assassin’s dagger.
Click for more coin images of the Seleukos I Nikator.