Battles of Antiochus the Great
Battles of Antiochus the Great Antiochus III, the king of the Seleucid Empire for four decades, ruled a powerful state for a long time. Compared with most of the other Hellenistic monarchs of…
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Battles of Antiochus the Great
Antiochus III, the king of the Seleucid Empire for four decades, ruled a powerful state for a long time. Compared with most of the other Hellenistic monarchs of Macedonian-founded kingdoms, Antiochus had a greater variety of units that he could field in his army. He fought and won many battles from India to Egypt, and he lost almost as many.
Yet, despite these advantages, Antiochus repeatedly came up short on the battlefield and his tactical shortcomings were no more obviously laid bare than at the Battle of Magnesia-ad-Sipylum in 190 BC. He was in a unique position among the other kings because he had access to the traditional infantry-based Greek cultures in Asia Minor as well as the cavalry-dominant cultures of Mesopotamia and Western Asia. There his huge combined army, one of the largest ever fielded by Hellenistic rulers, was soundly thrashed by the smaller Roman
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