Antiochus I Soter, was a king of the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire.
Background
Antiochus I was half Persian, his mother Apama being one of the eastern princesses whom Alexander the Great had given as wives to his generals in 324 British Columbia. In 294 British Columbia, prior to the death of his father Seleucus I, Antiochus married his stepmother, Stratonice, daughter of Demetrius Poliorcetes.
Career
He reigned in 281–261 British Columbia. Stratonice bore five children to Antiochus: Seleucus (he was executed for rebellion), Laodice, Apama II, Stratonice of Macedon and Antiochus II Theos, who succeeded his father as king. On the assassination of his father in 281 British Columbia, the task of holding together the empire was a formidable one. A revolt in Syria broke out almost immediately.
Antiochus was soon compelled to make peace with his father"s murderer, Ptolemy Keraunos, apparently abandoning Macedonia and Thrace.
In Anatolia he was unable to reduce Bithynia or the Persian dynasties that ruled in Cappadocia. At the end of 275 British Columbia the question of Coele-Syria, which had been open between the houses of Seleucus and Ptolemy since the partition of 301 British Columbia, led to hostilities (the First Syrian War).
lieutenant had been continuously in Ptolemaic occupation, but the house of Seleucus maintained its claim. War did not materially change the outlines of the two kingdoms, though frontier cities like Damascus and the coast districts of Asia Minor might change hands.
On March 27 268 British Columbia Antiochus I laid the foundation for the Ezida Temple in Borsippa.
Circa 262 British Columbia Antiochus tried to break the growing power of Pergamum by force of arms, but suffered defeat near Sardis and died soon afterwards.