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Antiochus I Soter

Antiochus I Soter ("the savior"): name of a Seleucid king, ruled from 281 to 261.

Successor of: Seleucus I Nicator

301: Present during the Battle of Ipsus
294/293: marriage with his father's wife Stratonice I
292: made co-regent and satrap of Bactria (perhaps Seleucus was thinking of the ancient Achaemenid office of mathišta)
Stay in Babylon (on several occasions?), where he showed an interest in the cults of Sin and Marduk, and in the rebuilding of the Esagila and Etemenanki

September 281: death of Seleucus (more...); accession of Antiochus; Philetaerus of Pergamon buys back Seleucus' corpse
280-279: Brief war against Ptolemy II Philadelphus (First Syrian War, first part); Cappadocia becomes independent when its leader Ariarathes II and his ally Orontes III of Armenia defeat the Seleucid general Amyntas
279: Intervention in Greece: soldiers sent to Thermopylae to fight against the Galatians; they are defeated
Antiochus after the "Elephant battle"

275 Successful "Elephant Battle" against the Galatians; they enter his army as mercenaries; Antiochus is called Soter, "victor"
274-271: Unsuccessful war against Ptolemy (First Syrian War, second part)
268: Stay in Babylonia; rebuilding of the Ezida in Borsippa
266: Execution of his son Seleucus
263: Eumenes I of Pergamon, successor of Philetaerus, declares himself independent
262: Antiochus defeated by Eumenes
Dies 2 June 261

Succeeded by: Antiochus II Theos

O.L. Gabelko & Yu.N. Kuzmin, "Matrimonial Policy of Demetrius II of Macedonia. New Solutions of Old Problems", in: Vestnik drevnej istorii 264 (2008) 141-164