Antiochos II
Antiochos II Théos ( God ) (287 - 246) control surface the kingdom séleucide of -261, date where it succeeds his father Antiochos I {{er}} Sôter , and 246, year of its death.
It delivers the inhabitants of Milet of their Tyran, Timarque, and receives the nickname of Théos on this occasion. To the same moment it gives their freedoms to all the cities Greek of the Asia Mineure. Between 260 and 255 bursts the second war of Syria with the Egypt. It recovers on this occasion the territories removed with his father by Ptolémée II. He marries Bérénice, the girl of this last, and repudiates for that his first wife, Laodice Ire. Then, for a reason which one is unaware of, he recalls the latter. Laodice had tough resentment: it made poison Antiochos II then to put at dead Bérénice and its children.
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