ANTIOCHUS I, SOTER, king of Syria, was the son of Seleucus I, and began to reign in B.C. 280. He fell violently in love with his step-mother Stratonice, who was resigned to him by his father, on the discovery that this was the cause of the distemper which threatened his life. He was slain in battle against the Gauls in B.C. 261.
The most compact and unbroken account of the kings of this dynasty is to be found in Appian's book, De Rebus Syriacis, at the end. The dates of the following table are taken from Clinton's Fasti Hellenici, vol. iii. Appendix, ch. iii. :—
Kings of the same family reigned in Antioch until Pompey reduced Syria to the form of a Roman province, B.C. 63.
ANTIOCHUS of Ascalon, a celebrated philosopher, the disciple of Philo of Larissa, the master of Cicero, and the friend of Lucullus and Brutus. He was founder of a fifth academy. See ANTIOCHIAN SECT.