Antiochus II leaves his unhappy marriage with…

246 BCE

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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Antiochus II Theos View → Berenice (Seleucid queen) View → Laodice I View → Ptolemy III Euergetes View → Seleucus II Callinicus View →

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