Chapter 2 - The Seleucid Kingdom

Summary

A decree of Ilion honoring Antiochos I. Sigeum, about 280–278. Marble stele, early third-century lettering.

OGIS 219; *I. Ilion 32; cf. Memnon, FGrHist 434F9.1; Justin 25.1.1.

Bevan, Seleucus 1.127–35; Tarn, Gonatas 168; Magie, RRAM 1.95 and 2.925–6; L. Robert, Essays in Honor of C. B. Welles (New Haven 1966) 175–92 with photograph; Habicht, Gottmenschentum 83–5; Orth, Machtanspruch 43–51; 61–72; Will, Histoire 1.140; Mastrocinque, Caria 72–3; F. Piejko, Gnomon 52 (1980) 258.

Nymphis, son of Diotrephes, being epimenios, and the epistates being Dionysios, son of | Hippomedon, Demetrios, son of Dies, introduced the motion. Since King Antiochos (I), son of King | Seleukos (I), at the beginning (of his reign), after having taken over the kingdom and manifested an hon|orable and good policy, sought to bring the cities in Se∥leukis, which were hard pressed by harsh circumstances because of those who had rebelled against | his regime, back to peace and their old prosperity, | and, having advanced against those attacking his regime, as was just, (he sought) to re|gain his ancestral realm; wherefore, acting with a good and just purpose | and taking not only his friends and his army, who were zealous for the struggle for ∥ his regime, but also the divinity as a benevolent hel|per, he restored the cities to peace and his kingdom to its old condition;