Antioch on the Orontes was a Hellenistic Greek city founded by Seleucus I Nicator in 300 BC. It was one of the greatest and most important Greek cities of the Hellenistic period. The city served as the capital of the Greek Seleucid Empire and later as regional capital to both the Roman and Byzantine Empire. During the Crusades, Antioch served as the capital of the Principality of Antioch, one of four Crusader states that were founded in the Levant. The modern city of Antakya, in Hatay Province of Turkey, was named after the ancient city, which lies in ruins on the Orontes River and did not overlap in habitation with the modern city.
King Šuppiluliuma (de) of Pattin, c. 860 BC in Hatay Archaeology Museum
An artifact from the middle and late Bronze Age, 2000–1200 BC in Hatay Archaeology Museum
Mosaic of Eros standing on the wings of two Psyches and whipping them on in Hatay Archaeology Museum
Dionysus mosaic in Hatay Archaeology Museum
Hellenistic Greece is the historical period of the country following Classical Greece, between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the annexation of the classical Greek Achaean League heartlands by the Roman Republic. This culminated at the Battle of Corinth in 146 BC, a crushing Roman victory in the Peloponnese that led to the destruction of Corinth and ushered in the period of Roman Greece. Hellenistic Greece's definitive end was with the Battle of Actium in 31 BC, when the future emperor Augustus defeated Greek Ptolemaic queen Cleopatra VII and Mark Antony, the next year taking over Alexandria, the last great center of Hellenistic Greece.
Coin depicting Cassander, first post-Argead leader of Hellenistic Greece and founder of Thessaloniki
Hellenistic Greek tomb door bas relief, Leeds City Museum.
Detail of a Hellenistic mosaic floor panel showing an Alexandrine parakeet, from the acropolis of Pergamon (near modern Bergama, Turkey), dated to the middle of the 2nd century BC (during the reigns of Eumenes II and Attalus II of Pergamon)
Philip V, "the darling of Hellas", wearing the royal diadem.