The Holy Land fell in the part alotted to Seleucus and his heirs. Generations later, Antiochus IV Epiphanes rules the Seleucid Empire 175-164 BC. To consolidate his power, he institutes a program ...

China, on the other hand, marches eastward like a secular Seleucid—erecting digital obelisks of soft power via the Digital Yuan, the Belt and Road Initiative, and a stratagem that fuses Leninist ...

Some historians reject his claim, however, arguing he came from a lower status dynasty, namely from the northern Asia Minor town of Cius, which was under the control of the Seleucid Empire. He fled ...