Hermeias
Carian minister of Seleucus III Ceraunus
275 BCE to 220 BCE
Hermeias (died 220 BCE) is a Carian by birth, who has raised himself to be the favorite and chief minister of Seleucus III Ceraunus (225–223 BCE), and is left at the head of affairs in Syria by that monarch when he sets out on the expedition across the Taurus Mountains, in the course of which Seleucus meets with his death, 223 BCE.
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Antiochus appoints Achaeus to the command of all Asia Minor on the western side of the Taurus mountains.
Achaeus recovers all the districts which Attalus had gained for the Seleucids once more; but being falsely accused by Hermeias of intending to revolt, he does so in self-defense, assumes the title of king, and rules over the whole of Asia on the western side of the Taurus.
Antiochus III, the younger son of Seleucus II Callinicus, had succeeded his brother Seleucus III to the throne of the disorganized kingdom.
He has retained from the previous administration Hermias as chief minister, Achaeus, a cousin and general of Antiochus III, as governor of Asia Minor, and Molon and his brother Alexander as governors of the eastern provinces, Media and Persis.
Antiochus, when Molon rebels and assumes the title of king in 223, abandons a campaign against Egypt for the conquest of southern Syria, on the advice of Hermias, and marches against Molon.
Molon rebels in 222 BCE and assumes the title of king.
Molon has meanwhile marched west against the Seleucids, but when Antiochus III moves against him from Syria, Molon's forces desert him, and the revolt ends with the rebel governor's defeat in 220 BCE on the far bank of the Tigris.
(This two-year period is the sole time that the Seleucid kings have lost control of Mesopotamia.)
Antiochus also conquers Atropatene, the northwestern part of Media.
Shortly hereafter, Antiochus has Hermeias killed and is thus rid of most of the influences from the previous By 220 BCE, Antiochus has put down most of the rebellions, but Achaeus will not be defeated until 213 BCE.