Coin of Antiochus Hierax. Reverse shows Apollo seated on omphalos. The Greek inscription reads ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΝΤΙΟΧΟΥ (of king Antiochus).
Antiochus (/ænˈtaɪ.əkəs/; Greek: Ἀντίoχoς; killed c. 226 BC), called Hierax (/ˈhaɪəræks/, Ἱέραξ, "Hawk") for his grasping and ambitious character,[1] was the younger son of Antiochus II and Laodice I and separatist leader in the Hellenistic Seleucid kingdom, who ruled as king of Syria during his brother's reign.
^Plutarch, Sayings of Kings and Commanders, p.184; On Brotherly Love, p.489
Antiochus (/ænˈtaɪ.əkəs/; Greek: Ἀντίoχoς; killed c. 226 BC), called Hierax (/ˈhaɪəræks/, Ἱέραξ, "Hawk") for his grasping and ambitious character, was...
living during the 3rd century AntiochusHierax, Seleucid prince Hierax (mythology), a Greek mythological figure Hierax (Platonist), Middle Platonist philosopher...
Antiochis, Seleucus III Ceraunus and Antiochus III the Great. Seleucus then appointed his brother AntiochusHierax as viceroy in Asia Minor and marched...
Look up Antiochus in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Antiochus is a Greek male first name, which was a dynastic name for rulers of the Seleucid Empire...
known on her relationship with Antiochus II. Laodice I bore her husband two sons: Seleucus II Callinicus and AntiochusHierax, and three daughters: Apama...
Greek power in West Asia; the empire reached its height under emperor Antiochus III. From the mid-second century BC, after its defeat at the hands of...
in the Seleucid Empire between Seleucus II Callinicus and AntiochusHierax. AntiochusHierax made alliances with other kings in Asia Minor, his base of...
brother Prince AntiochusHierax. Civil war had raged in the Seleucid Empire since 244 BC, when Queen Laodice I had supported her son Antiochus in a rebellion...
of AntiochusHierax and Seleucus II Callinicus, with whom he is said to have received the province of Phrygia as a dowry. In 245 BCE AntiochusHierax, supported...
(239–236 BC) against his brother AntiochusHierax and was unable to keep Bactria, Sogdiana and Parthia from breaking away. Hierax carved off most of Seleucid...
BC. But when Seleucus was forced, by the rebellion of his brother, AntiochusHierax, to return to the west, Tiridates came back and defeated the Macedonians...
to 246 BC. He succeeded his father Antiochus I Soter in the winter of 262–61 BC. He was the younger son of Antiochus I and princess Stratonice, the daughter...
Pergamon was again attacked by the Gauls together with their ally AntiochusHierax, the younger brother of Seleucus II Callinicus, and ruler of Seleucid...
Arsames I. Arsames II reigned from 230-220 BCE and offered asylum to AntiochusHierax, the rebellious brother of the Seleucid king, Seleucus II. Cyril Toumanoff...
the Kingdom of Pergamon of Attalus I against Seleucid forces led by AntiochusHierax, allied with the Galatian Gauls. Attalus was victorious. In 241 BC...
Pergamon and the Seleucid prince AntiochusHierax over dominion of western Anatolia. Attalus won a decisive victory and Hierax started a failed campaign in...
co-regency to his younger brother, AntiochusHierax, as well as rule over Seleucid territories in Anatolia. Antiochus promptly declared independence, undermining...
Mithridates went on to support AntiochusHierax against his brother Seleucus II Callinicus. Seleucus was defeated in Anatolia by Hierax, Mithridates, and the Galatians...
for control. In July 246 BC, Antiochus II, king of the Seleucid empire, died suddenly. By his first wife Laodice I, Antiochus II had had a son, Seleucus...
of Egypt and then had to fight a civil war against his own brother AntiochusHierax. Taking advantage of this distraction, Bactria and Parthia seceded...
Callinicus, was defeated by the Gauls at Ancyra in 237 (on behalf of AntiochusHierax), and fell into the hands of the enemy, his wife Mysta threw aside...
south even at the expense of the interests of the town of Massilia. AntiochusHierax, brother of the Seleucid King Seleucus II manages to escape from captivity...
Cartagena) as his capital city. King Attalus I Soter of Pergamum defeats AntiochusHierax (brother of the Seleucid king Seleucus II) in three battles and thereby...
AntiochusHierax, and the latter's sister Stratonice marrying Ariaramnes' son Ariarathes (Ariarathes III). Consequently, the Seleucid king Antiochus II...
to proclaim himself king (basileus). It is known that he sided with AntiochusHierax in his war against Seleucus II Callinicus[citation needed]. Ariarathes...
Sicyon repeatedly attacks Athens and Argos. Seleucus II's brother AntiochusHierax, who is governor of Seleucid Anatolia, sends an army into Syria ostensibly...
Galatians and won a fight against them in 230 BCE, and then defeated AntiochusHierax three years later in order to secure nominal control over Anatolia...
BC. They sided with the renegade Seleucid prince AntiochusHierax, who reigned in Asia Minor. Hierax tried to defeat king Attalus I of Pergamum (241–197...
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