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Seleucus I Nicator
Σέλευκος Νικάτωρ grc
General of Alexander and founder of the Seleucid dynasty
- Child of Antiochus and Laodice of Macedonia
- Married to Apama, Stratonice of Syria
- Dated 358 BCE – 281 BCE
A life on the record,
dated by its sources.
Roles, not beliefs
Overview
From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.
Life
Roles and affiliation
Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.
What this means
As the records give them: every row is a third party’s statement, not a self-description, and a role or an affiliation is often held for one period of a life only. An affiliation is not a belief, and this site does not ask anyone about theirs. For an office: which one, for how long, and where the records give an ordinal or the holders either side. Recognition of a tenure is never universal: contested lines appear as overlapping tenures rather than as one corrected sequence.
Offices held 1
Family
The family of Seleucus I Nicator
Parents, spouses and children as the records give them.
Documented family only. A teacher, a successor or a patron is never drawn in this tree.
The family as a list · 12
Family 12
What this means
A documented human family relationship. Not a succession mechanism, and not religious transmission.
Does not imply a right to an office · transmission of a teaching · a religious affiliation held by the whole house · continuous rule · a shared religious affiliation
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
- child of (father) Antiochus 4th-century BC Macedonian general
- child of (mother) Laodice of Macedonia Mother of Seleucus, founder of the Seleucid Empire
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of the house Seleucid dynasty ruling dynasty in Hellenistic Syria, Mesopotamia, Iran - of the house Seleucid Empire
- parent of (child) Achaeus son of Seleucus I Nicator
- parent of (child) Antiochus I Soter Ruler of the Seleucid Empire from 281 to 261 BC
- parent of (child) Apama Seleucid princess, daughter of Seleucus I Nicator
- parent of (child) Berenice daughter of Seleucus I Nicator, wife of Chandragupta Maurya
- parent of (child) Phila queen
- sibling of Didymeia sister of Seleukos I Nicator
- married to Apama 4th-century BC Seleucid queen consort
- married to Stratonice of Syria Ancient Macedonian queen consort
Religious context
What the records tie them to
Founded, supported, associated with — as third parties recorded it.
What this means
A founding is an attribution, usually contested, and not a claim that the tradition began fully formed. Patronage is an act, not a belief: it says nothing about the religion of a population, and nothing about the patron’s own practice in every period of a life. Domains are as sources record them — for a saint, usually a patronage — rarely exclusive, and not the same in every account.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
14 statements on this record
- 4 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 10 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 1 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
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- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
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Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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