Family of Antiochus I + and Stratonice I +

Husband:	Antiochus I + (324-261)
Wife:	Stratonice I + (295- )
Children:	Seleuces (300- )
	Laodice (295- )
	Apama II + (290- )
	Antiochus II + (286-246)
	Stranonice of MACEDON (280- )

Husband: Antiochus I +

Wife: Stratonice I +

Name:	Stratonice I +
Sex:	Female
Father:	Demetrius I + PROLIOCERTES (350- )
Mother:	Phila I + (352-287)
Birth	0295 B.C.
Occupation		Queen of Syria
Title		Queen of Syria

Child 1: Seleuces

Name:	Seleuces
Sex:	Male
Birth	0300 B.C.

Child 2: Laodice

Name:	Laodice
Sex:	Female
Birth	0295 B.C.

Child 3: Apama II +

Name:	Apama II +
Sex:	Female
Spouse:	Magas + (392- )
Birth	0290 B.C.
Occupation		Princess of Syria
Title		Princess of Syria

Child 4: Antiochus II +

Child 5: Stranonice of MACEDON

Name:	Stranonice of MACEDON
Sex:	Female
Birth	0280 B.C.

Note on Husband: Antiochus I +

Antiochus I Soter (Antiochus the Savior, unknown - 261 BC), was a king of the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire. He reigned from 281 BC - 261 BC.

 

Antiochus I was half Persian, his mother Apama being one of the eastern princesses whom Alexander the Great had given as wives to his generals in 324 BC. In 294 BC, prior to the death of his father Seleucus I, Antiochus married his stepmother, Stratonice, daughter of Demetrius Poliorcetes. His elderly father reportedly instigated the marriage after discovering that his son was in danger of dying of lovesickness. Stratonice bore five children to Antiochus: Seleucus, Laodice, Antiochus II Theos, who was to succeed his father as king (Seleucus having been executed for rebellion); Apama II, married to Magas, king of Cyrene; and Stratonice of Macedon.

 

On the assassination of his father in 281 BC, the task of holding together the empire was a formidable one. A revolt in Syria broke out almost immediately. Antiochus was soon compelled to make peace with his father's murderer, Ptolemy Keraunos, apparently abandoning Macedonia and Thrace. In Anatolia he was unable to reduce Bithynia or the Persian dynasties that ruled in Cappadocia.

 

In 278 BC the Gauls broke into Anatolia, and a victory that Antiochus won over these hordes is said to have been the origin of his title of Soter (Gr. for "saviour").

 

At the end of 275 BC the question of Coele-Syria, which had been open between the houses of Seleucus and Ptolemy since the partition of 301 BC, led to hostilities (the First Syrian War). It had been continuously in Ptolemaic occupation, but the house of Seleucus maintained its claim. War did not materially change the outlines of the two kingdoms, though frontier cities like Damascus and the coast districts of Asia Minor might change hands.

 

On March 27th 268 BC Antiochus I laid the foundation for the Ezida Temple in Borsippa.[1] His eldest son Seleucus had ruled in the east as viceroy from 275 BC(?) till 268/267 BC; Antiochus put his son to death in the latter year on the charge of rebellion. Circa 262 BC Antiochus tried to break the growing power of Pergamum by force of arms, but suffered defeat near Sardis and died soon afterwards. He was succeeded in 261 BC by his second son Antiochus II Theos.

Note on Wife: Stratonice I +

Stratonice of Syria was the daughter of king Demetrius Poliorcetes and Phila, the daughter of Antipater. In 300 BC, at which time she could not have been more than seventeen years of age, her hand was solicited by Seleucus, king of Syria, and she was conducted by her father Demetrius to Rhosus, on the Pierian coast (in Macedonia), where her nuptials were celebrated with the utmost magnificence.[1] Notwithstanding the disparity of their ages, she appears to have lived in perfect harmony with the old king for some years, and had already borne him one child, a daughter called Phila, when it was discovered that her stepson Antiochus was deeply enamoured of her, and Seleucus, in order to save the life of his son, which was endangered by the violence of his passion, in 294 BC gave up Stratonice in marriage to the young prince, whom he at the same time constituted king of the eastern provinces.[2] The union seems to have been a prosperous one, but we find little subsequent mention of Stratonice. She bore five children to Antiochus: Seleucus, Laodice, Antiochus II Theos, who was to succeed his father as king (Seleucus having been executed for rebellion); Apama II, married to Magas, king of Cyrene; and Stratonice of Macedonia. The city of Stratonikeia in Caria was named after her by Antiochus.[3] [1]