{"slug": "antiochus-hierax", "label": "Antiochus Hierax", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiochus_Hierax", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q355917", "qid": "Q355917", "description": "Seleucid ruler", "entries": 8, "years": 7, "span": [-245, -225], "span_label": ["246 BCE", "226 BCE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 5}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "seleucus-ii-callinicus", "label": "Seleucus II Callinicus", "shared": 7}, {"slug": "anatolia", "label": "Anatolia", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "seleucid", "label": "Seleucid", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "syria", "label": "Syria", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "thrace", "label": "Thrace", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "galatia", "label": "Galatia", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "ancient-egypt", "label": "Ancient Egypt", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "taurus-mountains", "label": "Taurus Mountains", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ankara", "label": "Ankara", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "celts", "label": "Celts", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "cilicia", "label": "Cilicia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "pergamum", "label": "Pergamum", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -245, "year_label": "246 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Seleucus II Callinicus' mother, Laodice attempts to take control over the Seleucid Empire by insisting that Seleucus II make his younger brother, Antiochus Hierax, co-regent and give him all the Seleucid territory in Anatolia. Antiochus promptly declares independence and begins fighting a war with his brother.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358219611#Seleucid_Empire", "title": "246 BC", "revid": 1358219611, "section": "Events › By place › Seleucid Empire"}}, {"year": -238, "year_label": "239 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Seleucus II's brother Antiochus Hierax, who is governor of Seleucid Anatolia, sends an army into Syria ostensibly to assist Seleucus but actually to seize the rest of the empire. After achieving peace with Egypt, Seleucus II promptly invades Anatolia and begins the \"War of the Brothers\".", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1212004865#Seleucid_Empire", "title": "239 BC", "revid": 1212004865, "section": "Events › By place › Seleucid Empire"}}, {"year": -235, "year_label": "236 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Antiochus Hierax, supported by his mother Laodice I, allies himself with the Galatians (Celts) and two other states that are traditional foes of the Seleucid kingdom. With the aid of these forces, he inflicts a crushing defeat on his older brother Seleucus II's army at Ancyra in Anatolia. Seleucus leaves the country beyond the Taurus Mountains to his brother and the other powers of the peninsula.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368088891#Asia_Minor", "title": "236 BC", "revid": 1368088891, "section": "Events › By place › Asia Minor"}}, {"year": -234, "year_label": "235 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Antiochus Hierax defeats his brother King Seleucus II Callinicus at the Battle of Ancyra.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1342603103#Asia_Minor", "title": "235 BC", "revid": 1342603103, "section": "Events › By place › Asia Minor"}}, {"year": -227, "year_label": "228 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "King Attalus I Soter of Pergamum defeats Antiochus Hierax (brother of the Seleucid king Seleucus II) in three battles and thereby gains control over all the Seleucid domains in Anatolia except Cilicia in the southeast.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1326026286#Asia_Minor", "title": "228 BC", "revid": 1326026286, "section": "Events › By place › Asia Minor"}}, {"year": -226, "year_label": "227 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Antiochus Hierax tries to raise revolts against his brother Seleucus II in Syria and the east of the Seleucid kingdom. However, he is captured and exiled to Thrace, where he lives as a virtual prisoner.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1288758207#Seleucid_Empire", "title": "227 BC", "revid": 1288758207, "section": "Events › By place › Seleucid Empire"}}, {"year": -225, "year_label": "226 BCE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "Antiochus Hierax, brother of the Seleucid King Seleucus II manages to escape from captivity in Thrace and flees to the mountains to raise an army, but he is killed by a band of Galatians.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360927548#Seleucid_Empire", "title": "226 BC", "revid": 1360927548, "section": "Events › By place › Seleucid Empire"}}, {"year": -225, "year_label": "226 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Antiochus Hierax, younger brother of Seleucus II, who has fought with him over the control of the Seleucid dominions in the Middle East (b. c. 263 BC)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360927548#Deaths", "title": "226 BC", "revid": 1360927548, "section": "Deaths"}}]}