Antiochus Hierax

Antiochus Hierax

▪ Seleucid king
flourished c. 263–226 BC

      younger brother of Seleucus II (Seleucus II Callinicus), heir to the Seleucid dominions in the Middle East. During his brother's war with Egypt, he declared independence in Anatolia and attempted to take over the throne.

      Antiochus Hierax and Seleucus II, were the sons of Antiochus II's former wife, Laodice. While his brother was involved in the Third Syrian War (246–241) with Egypt, which had erupted over the death of his father's second wife (daughter of Ptolemy II), Antiochus was sent as ruler to Seleucid Anatolia, where Laodice was living. Perhaps in league with his mother, late in the war he sent an army into Syria ostensibly to assist Seleucus but actually to seize the rest of the empire. The appearance of Hierax' troops, however, brought peace between Egypt and his brother, and Seleucus promptly invaded Anatolia and began the War of the Brothers (239–236). Antiochus Hierax fared badly until he allied himself to the Galatians (Celts) and two other states that were traditional foes of the Seleucid kingdom. With the aid of these forces, he inflicted a crushing defeat on his brother's army at Ancyra (236). His alliance with the Galatians, however, provoked the ruler of Pergamum (another Hellenistic state), who, in a war in 236–228, expelled Hierax from Anatolia.

      Back in Syria, Antiochus tried to raise revolts against his brother in Syria and the East. Consequently, he was exiled to Thrace in 227, where he lived as a virtual prisoner. The following year he managed to escape and fled to the mountains to raise an army, but he was killed by a band of Galatians.

Additional Reading
Edwyn Robert Bevan, The House of Seleucus, 2 vol. (1902, reprinted 2 vol. in 1, 1985), covers the members of the Seleucid dynasty.

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