Ptolemy Ceraunus
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Ptolemy Ceraunus was a member of the Ptolemaic dynasty and briefly king of Macedon. As the son of Ptolemy I Soter, he was originally heir to the throne of Ptolemaic Egypt, but he was displaced in favo
Stater of Ptolemy Keraunos
Coin of Ptolemy II, depicting Arsinoe II
Lisymachus, marble Ephesus Museum
Seleucus I Nicator
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Seleucus I Nicator was a Macedonian Greek general, officer and successor of Alexander the Great who went on to found the eponymous Seleucid Empire, led by the Seleucid dynasty. Initially a secondary p
Ptolemy Ceraunus
…Philadelphus. He fled to King Lysimachus of Thrace and Macedon where he was involved in court intrigue that led to the fall of that kingdom in 281 BC to Seleucus I, whom he then assassinated. He then seized the throne of Macedon, which he ruled for seventeen months before his death in battle against the Gauls in…
Roman copy of a bronze statue of Seleucus found in Herculaneum (now located at the Naples National Archaeological Museum)
Seleucus led the Royal Hypaspistai during Alexander's Persian campaign.
Ptolemy I Soter, an officer under Alexander the Great, was nominated as the satrap of Egypt. Ptolemy made Ptolemaic Egypt independent and proclaimed himself Basileus and Pharaoh in 305 BC.
Bust attributed to Seleucus I Nicator, Roman Imperial artwork made in Syria from a Hellenistic model (c. 200 AD)