Seleucus
historical figure · 3 works · 4 mentions · 4 anchored passages
spoken of as
1 expressionin the texts
The Rights of War and Peace
Hellenistic king cited for demanding hostages of Demetrius as a security condition.
the conditions, which Seleucus demanded of Demetrius, for permitting him to remain within his territories.
In the same manner,Antiochus the Great maintained that Coelo-Syria belonged to Seleucus, and not to Ptolemy, because Seleucus had been the principal in the war, to which Ptolemy had contributed his assistance.
Stromata
An astronomer/mathematician cited for his account of the moon's sevenfold phases.
But it too, as Seleucus the mathematician records, changes its figure seven times.
De Anima
Hellenistic king whose future kingdom of Asia was foreseen by his mother Laodice before his birth.
And to Seleucus the kingdom of Asia, his mother Laodice foresaw, before she had borne him.