The Seleucid Empire in 150 BC
The much-reduced Seleucid realm of the mid-second century BC, after the loss of its eastern provinces and before its final collapse.
At its founding the Seleucid Empire stretched from the Aegean to the Indus. By 150 BC it had lost Bactria, Parthia and most of Asia Minor, and its kings were fighting each other for what remained. The map shows a state governing an enormous religious and linguistic patchwork with too little army and too little money — the setting for the confrontations over temple authority in Syria and Judaea. Read the full story in our article on God-Kings and Governors: The Seleucid Struggle to Control Religious Authority in Hellenistic Syria.
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