Ruler · 243 – 223 BCE

Seleucus III Ceraunus

Lived 243 – 223 BCE. Seleucid ruler of Seleucid Empire, 225 BCE – 223 BCE.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the reign.

Lived: 243 BCE – 223 BCE; 20 years
In office: 2 years; one reign
Lines: 1; Seleucid Empire
Left it: killed; the ruler's own article

Seleucid ruler

Seleucid Empire · the 6th of 15 dated reigns · 312 BCE – 64 BCE

2 before

Seleucus280 BCE – 266 BCE

Antiochus II Theos261 BCE – 246 BCE

Seleucus II Callinicus246 BCE – 225 BCE

Seleucus III Ceraunus225 BCE – 223 BCE

Antiochus III the Great224 BCE – 187 BCE

Antiochus210 BCE – 193 BCE

Seleucus IV Philopator187 BCE – 175 BCE

6 after

killed, executed or dead in battledied in officeending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared thronethis entry

Reigned 225 BCE – 223 BCE · 2 years · came to it aged 18

Came to it: the child of the ruler before, on record
Left it: killedread from the ruler's own article

In 223 BCE, he was assassinated in Asia Minor by courtiers during a campaign against Attalus I of Pergamon.

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