Demetrius I was the oldest living Seleucus and he took over from his much younger cousins but he had too much to handle. Will Demetrius crack under the pressure, well yes, but let’s see how.

Antiochus the 5th was too young to rule so once again he was just a mere pawn to a minister, this time it is Lysias.

After a short era of struggle Mithradates marched on Antioch and deposed the minister Heliodorus and his puppet Antiochus. Mithradates then crowned himself Antiochus IV Theos Epiphanes. You want to learn more about this interesting man who was political hostage, dumped a whole lot of Perfume on random people in the public bath, and who is the bad guy in Hanukah? Then listen to this episode.

After Heliodorus maybe murdered his dad little Antiochus would become king but the true power was within that minister Heliodorus.

When Antiochus died the empire was down one genius and in a state of chaos Seleucus would have to live up to his father’s expectations to rule. Yeah right.

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When Seleucus III died his younger brother the 18 year old Antiochus inherited a devastated empire full of political strife and he did a lot with it. And when your called the great then it has to be pretty good.

The Seleucid empire had one of the worlds best military’s and I thought it would be appropriate to cover them before the recon quest of the empire.

After Callicinus died, someone had to pick up his campaign in Asia Minor against Attalus, and let’s just say the apple did not fall far from the tree when it came to young Thunderbolt.

Seleucus Callicinus was such an incompetent ruler that his little brother revolted and won. But Seleucus was the least of little Antiochus Hierax’s worries. As he would lose to a small kingdom led by a man named Attalus.