seleucid empire

Rome defeated the Selecuid Empire at Magnesia. This defeat forced them to abandon Anatolia and pay crippling reparations to Rome. Later the Seleucid Empire succumbed to civil wars. The Parthians took advantage of this to take over most of their territory. But what if Rome went further and took...

Demetrius looked out towards the Rhodian Harbor his attempts to take the Rhodian harbor had so far failed the Rhodians had failed he wasn't sure what move to make next he might need to focus more on the land attacks and create a siege engine similar to the one at Salamis one year ago a then a...

what if Maccabees were defeated completely by Seleucids? what would be the effects on Judaism ?

if Gauls destroy Rome from existence in 390 BCE would Seleucid civil wars still happen lead to their conquest by parthians?

The Battle of Raphia was pretty close, and despite being outnumbered the Seleucids had a good chance to win until the moment Antiochus III failed to seize the opportunity that appeared after he and his cavalry defeated their Ptolemaic counterparts and put them to flight, a mistake he would...

Let's say that Antiochus III decides that an intervention in Greece on behalf of the Aetolian League is likely a bad idea and instead focuses on strengthening his authority in Anatolia and the Near East instead, hopefully avoiding open conflict with Rome. If this was so, was a Maccabee style...

Lets posit that that the Seleucids manage to win the Battle of Magnesia, either better luck with their elephants, maybe they bring Hannibal along or etc. They suffer some severe losses but manage to force Scipio to retreat. The Romans were war weary and a defeat this far from home may have...

In 305-303 BC, the expanding empire of Chandragupta and the young Diadochi realm of Seleucus fought somewhere in the Indus Valley or Hindu Kush mountains. Seleucus, having secured the Upper Satrapies and expelled Antigonus and his son from Mesopotamia, was free to turn his attention east, for a...

The Seleucids arguably reached their lowest point pre-Magnesia in this time period, with political instability, rebellions, and constant warfare in Syria wracking the Seleucid state. Antiochus III was one of the more energetic Seleucid rulers, and he managed to get rid of the influence of...

Despite the fact that we know virtually nothing about it except for it's occurence, and that Chandragupta gained vast territories in the east afterwards, including Arachosia, Gedrosia, and Paropamisadae, and in return, Seleucus recieved 500 elephants from him, while it might be an exaggeration...

Despite what the Seleucids managed to accomplish IOTL and the kinds of things they were capable of, they never established full-fledged control over the Caucasus region and Armenia as a whole, with the de facto rulers being both the Yervanduni(Orontid) and Artaxiad dynasties later on, both...

After the death of Seleucus I "Nikator", what if the subsequent Seleucid kings gave up on fighting the other Diadochi and instead focused on Alexander's earlier dream of a Greco-Persian state, focusing entirely on the eastern portions of their massive empire? This would include: -Trying to...

Around 278 BC, hordes of Celtic migrants had begun to spill over into Anatolia, invited through a power struggle between 2 claimants of the Kingdom of Bithynia, and required the action of the Seleucid basileus to crush. Antiochus engaged them somewhere in Anatolia, winning a victory with his...

In 190 BC, after being expelled from Greece, Antiochus III met the consular Roman army at the Battle of Magnesia in 190 BC. The Seleucids outnumbered the Romans by a margin of 2;1, according to some sources, and Antiochus had around 54 elephants and a significant number of war chariots. Despite...

In a scenario with an unsuccessful maccabean revolt and continued Seleucid policies of hellenisation, how much more hellenised could jews under the empire become? If the Seleucids were to attempt near complete assimilation, what would be the best coarse of action (if possible)?

Antiochus III was basileus of the Seleucid Empire from 222 BCE until sometime around the 180’s. When he ascended to the throne, his empire was in disarray — there was unrest in the Persian and Median satrapies under the rebel leaders Molon and Alexander, Parthia and Bactria were nibbling at the...

In 217 BC, a day before the battle of Raphia, a man named Theodotus attempted to assassinate Ptolemy IV, Theodotus was an Aetolian general who had initially served Ptolemy IV, and expelled the first attack from Antiochus III of the Seleucid Empire on Coele-Syria. Afterward he was recalled to...

In 220 BC, Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid Empire, defeated Molon, a rebelling satrap, after several setbacks against Molon's forces. Molon had taken over the upper satrapies and had crossed the Tigris, and taken Seleucia. But Antiochus decided to march against Molon in person, and the...

In 281 BC, after defeating Lysimachus, Seleucus I Nicator had essentially taken over the entire Asian part of Alexander’s Empire, and was preparing to cross into Macedonia and Thrace. However, before his invasion could commence, Seleucus was assasinated by Ptolemy Ceraunus. What if Seleucus had...

During the existence of the Seleucid Empire, from 321-63 BC, there was no major indigenous rebellion against the Seleucids(besides the Maccabean revolt), despite the natives outnumbering the Greeks and Macedonians by a large margin and many of the natives considering them to be foreigners. Why...