Part 6

d. Seleucus II, Callinicus: 246-226 B.C., 186.

e. Seleucus III, Soter: 226-223 B.C.

f. Antiochus III, The Great: 223-187 B.C., 187.

g. Seleucus IV: 187-175 B.C.

h. Antiochus IV, The God Manifest: 175-164 B.C., 190, 213.

3. Century of decline: 164-163 B.C., 190.

4. External agents of destruction, 190.

a. Rome disarms Seleucids, incites revolt, and keeps alive dynastic struggles, 190.

b. Indo-Scythians (Yue Tchi) occupy East Iran, 192.

5. Internal agencies: revolt of Jews, Parthians, Armenians, 191, 192.

II. POLICY AND PROBLEMS OF THE SELEUCIDS 195-214

1. Seleucus I, heir of Alexander's ideas, 195.

2. Founding of city-states, 196.

3. Priestly communities and feudal states, how treated, 197.

4. Royal villages, how managed, 203, 205.

5. Land either property of king or of city-states, 204.

6. City-states, how far they Hellenized Asia, 206.

7. Relations of king to city-states, 208.

8. Comparison of Syria and Italy, 210.

9. Policy of Antiochus IV: conflict with Jews; submission to Rome, 212.

VII. THE EMPIRE OF THE ANTIGONIDS

I. RELATION OF MACEDON TO HELLAS 215

II. MACEDONIAN CONTRIBUTION TO ROME 215-216

1. War, 215.

2. Government--a constitutional and not an absolute monarchy, 216.

3. Culture, 216.

III. MACEDONIAN OPPOSITION TO ROME 217-218

IV. EARLY HISTORY OF THE ANTIGONIDS 218-222