APPENDIX II.

THE KINGS OF EGYPT, SYRIA, AND MACEDONIA, TO THE END OF THE PERIOD EMBRACED IN POLYBIUS’S HISTORY

B.C.EGYPTB.C.SYRIA
306-285Ptolemy, s. of Lagus306-301Antigonus the One-eyed
283-247Ptolemy II. Philadelphus301-280Seleucus Nicanor
247-222Ptolemy III. Euergetes280-261Antiochus I. Soter, s. of
Antigonus the One-eyed
222-205Ptolemy IV. Philopator246-226Seleucus II. Callinicus
205-181Ptolemy V. Epiphanes226-223Seleucus III. Alexander or Ceraunus
181-146Ptolemy VI. Philometor223-187Antiochus III. the Great
170-154Ptolemy VII. Physcon,
joint king with his
brother, Ptolemy VI
187-175Seleucus IV. Philopator
146-117Ptolemy VII. sole king175-164Antiochus IV. Epiphanes
164-162Antiochus V. Eupator
162-150Demetrius I. Soter
150-147Alexander Balas
147-125Demetrius II. Nicator
B.C.MACEDONIA
323-311

Alexander IV.
323-317Philip III. (Arrhidaeus)
311-306 Regency of Cassander
306-296 Cassander
296 Philip IV. s. of Cassander
296-294 Antipater

sons of Cassander
Alexander
294-287 Demetrius I. Poliercetes, ob. 283
287-281 Divided between Lysimachus and Pyrrhus
281-280

Seleucus, Nicanor
Ptolemy Ceraunus, s. of Ptolemy of Egypt
280-277 [Various claimants]
277-239 Antigonus Gonatas, s. of Demetrius I.
239-229 Demetrius II. s. of Gonatas.
229-179 Philip V. s. of Demetrius II.
[Antigonus Doson, nominally his guardian assumes the crown B.C. 229-220]
179-168 Perseus [Macedonia a Roman province]