Antiochus

Name of 13 kings of Syria, of the Seleucid dynasty, reigning between 280 and 65 B.C.-A. THE GREAT, 223-187, maintained an unsucce ful war with Egypt, and another of 7 years, 212-205 with his revolted Asian provinces; conquered Palestine and Cælo-Syria 198; was defeated by the Romans at Thermopylæ 191, and again at Mt. Sipylus 190; gained peace 188 by ceding everything e. of Mt. Taurus; killed in an attack upon a temple.-A. EPIPHANES, 175-164, fought Egypt succe fully 171-168; by his attempt to root out the Jewish religion excited a revolt of the Jews under the Maccabees which he could not quell; died in a state of raving insanity, and was called Epimanes (madman) by his subjects. Also 4 kings of Comma gene, the first of whom aided Pompey 49 B.C., and the last of whom A.D. 38-72, helped the Romans against the Parthians and the Jews.