23- When All Men Doubt You

<p>Antiochus I faced a difficult situation when his father died. As Bevan noted in 1902, the great distance messengers had to travel to notify him of the western situation following his father's death meant that others had already begun carving out their own piece of the pie again. Yes, Seleucus has an obvious heir where Alexander did not, but that doesn't mean that the Hellenistic world isn't going to descend from unity into anarchy once again...</p> <p>Sources for this episode: 1) Bevan, E. R. (1902), The House of Seleucus (Vol. I). London: Edward Arthur. Quote: p. 75- 76. 2) Bevan, E. R. (1927), The House of Ptolemy, London: Methuen Publishing. Available at: LascusCurtis (online) [Accessed 08/02/2021]. 3) The Editors, Encyclopaedia Britannica (2020), Antiochus I Soter (online) [Accessed 11/03/2021]. 4) Kipling, R. (1949) The Definitive Edition of Rudyard Kipling verse. Edinburgh: R. &amp; R. Clark Ltd. (Printed for Hodder and Stoughton Ltd. in London). Quote: p. 576 5) Rawlinson, G. (1869) A manual of ancient history from the earliest times to the fall of the Western Empire, comprising the history of Chaldea, Assyria, Media, Babylonia, Lydia, Phoenicia, Syria, Judea, Egypt, Carthage, Persia, Greece, Macedonia, Rome, and Parthia. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 6-14) Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), 'Antiochus I Soter', 'Antigonus II Gonatas', 'Arsinoe II', 'Attalid dynasty', 'Bithynia', 'Cappadocia', 'Kingdom of Pontus', 'Pergamon', 'Philetaerus' and 'Zipoetes I of Bithynia' (online) [Accessed 10/03/2021].</p>