Person

Achaeus

general and separatist ruler of part of the Greek Seleucid kingdom

b. 265 BCE – d. 213 BCE World The Great Crossroads

Achaeus (died 213 BCE) is a general and later a separatist ruler of part of the Greek Seleucid kingdom.

He is the son of Andromachus, whose sister Laodice II, married Seleucus Callinicus, the father of Antiochus III the Great.

Achaeus himself marries Laodice of Pontus, one of the daughters to Laodice and Mithridates II of Pontus.