Antiochus III

Brother of Seleukos III, Antiochus III is remembered as Megas (“the Great”) due to his conquest of several territories (including the nascent Parthian Kingdom) and the success achieved against Ptolemaic Egypt in the Fourth and Fifth Syrian wars. Less successful was his first contact against Roman power (192-188). He is mentioned in the Babylonian King List of the Hellenistic Period and in the Judicial Chronicle.