A perfect balance of core strength, fast cavalry, and a hard-hitting elephant. This Hail Caesar Successors Starter Army can be used to represent forces for the Seleucid, Ptolemaic, or Pyrrhic empires: https://t.co/KvuiVxWoCL

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My maternal grandmother's father (Great Grandfather) carried haplogroup E-V13 (found out because my second cousin tested for it). Could be the legacy of Seleucid colonization, or Seapeoples or something else 🤷‍♂️

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Started drawing the battle of Raphia. Been really busy so I think gonna post what I had just in case I don’t come back to it. Ptolemaic (Red) and Seleucid (blue)

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The Persians, Alexander, the Seleucids and the Greco-Bactrians – they had all built forts on the southern bank of the Jaxartes river (today the Syr Darya in central Asia) to fend off the threat of raiding nomads from the north

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There's no evidence anyone in Cleopatra's Ptolemaic Greek royal family was part Egyptian, let alone Nubian, but they were part Sogdian Iranian via Seleucid marriage. They practiced incest for generations, ironically due to Egypt's Osiris myth.

The parents of Cleopatra VII:

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY SELEUCID!

セレウコスお誕生日おめでとう〜〜〜〜!!!おっきなニャンコ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

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Rule by the Macedonian-born Seleucid dynasty did little to deter the flourishing culture of Mesopotamia. Seleucid kings readily adopted the traditional political and religious roles of Near-Eastern rulers, and cuneiform continued to be used despite the preference for Greek.

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Instead of seeing it as something horrible, one can see it as a challengue. Said this, even if it hasn't great army or good troops, you can spam infinite types horsemen alongside spearmen, a good combination, and advice is: don't piss of Seleucids

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The Persians, Alexander, the Seleucids and the Greco-Bactrians – they had all built forts on the southern bank of the Jaxartes river (today the Syr Darya in central Asia) to fend off the threat of raiding nomads from the north.

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The Persians, Alexander, the Seleucids and the Greco-Bactrians: they had all built forts on the southern bank of the Jaxartes river (today the Syr Darya in central Asia) to fend off the threat of raiding nomads from the north

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The Persians, Alexander, the Seleucids and the Greco-Bactrians: they had all built forts on the southern bank of the Jaxartes river (today the Syr Darya in central Asia) to fend off the threat of raiding nomads from the north.

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Seleucid cataphract main menu scroller getting a touch-up

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Rhyton in the form of a centaur. Greek, Seleucid, Hellenistic period, circa 160 B.C. Silver with gilding.

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Two Greek Empires emerged in Mid. East after Alexander's death. The Ptolemies in Egypt & the Seleucids in Syria.

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Gilded silver dish showing Dionysos (detail), Seleucid Empire/Bactrian Kingdom, 3rd to mid 2nd cent. BC, from "Arts of the Hellenized East"

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