winterhalters:women history meme → ancient or legends [1/5] ↳ Laodice I, Queen Consort of the Hellen

winterhalters:women history meme → ancient or legends [1/5] ↳ Laodice I, Queen Consort of the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire“Her responsibility for the deaths of Berenice and her child is firmly grounded, and this was part of the cause of the Third Syrian War, referred to also as the “War of Laodice” or “Laodicean War”. But when Seleukos II went to Syria to fight for the throne, she is credited with instigating the rebellion by her second son Antiochus Hierax in c. 244, which caused a civil war for the next seventeen years. // Ptolemy the brother of Berenice exacted vengeance for his sister’s death by an invasion of Syria, in which Laodice was captured and killed.” –  J. D. Grainger, A Seleukid Prosopography //  G. W. Bromiley, The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. -- source link

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