Antiochus II leaves his unhappy marriage with …
Years: 246BCE - 246BCE
Antiochus II leaves his unhappy marriage with Ptolemid princess Berenice, and their infant son, somehow persuaded by his cast-off first wife, Laodice, to return to live with her and their son in Ephesus, where he dies in 246, perhaps by poison, perhaps a victim of her intrigues.
Laodice proclaims her son King Seleucos II, then orders her partisans at Antioch to …
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People
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- Mesopotamia
- Greeks, Hellenistic
- Macedon, Antigonid Kingdom of
- Egypt, Ptolemaic Kingdom of
- Seleucid Kingdom
- Greco-Bactrian Kingdom
