Antiochus IV Epiphanes | Seleucid History XX

175-164BC. A new Antiochus comes to power and subsequently faces threats from within and without, culminating in a reign which lives in infamy.

Sources Consulted:

Primary:
I Maccabees
II Maccabees
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Josephus, The Jewish War
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Inscriptions:
CM 4 (Babylonian King List of the Hellenistic Period)
OGIS: 248: A Decree (Of Athens?) in Honour of Eumenes II and his Brothers
THI 86: Laodikeia Honours Hagemonidas of Dyme
TM 65863: A Letter from the Sixth Syrian War

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