Syrian Wars 273 BC–167 BC

Seleucid Empire, Macedonia (ancient kingdom) ⚔ Ptolemaic Kingdom

Key battles

• Battle of Raphia (216 BC)
• Battle of Panium (199 BC)

Who lived through the Syrian Wars

Well-known people alive during 273 BC–167 BC:

• Archimedes (286 BC–211 BC) — Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
• Qin Shi Huang (258 BC–209 BC) — first emperor of Qin Dynasty
• Ashoka (303 BC–231 BC) — Mauryan emperor from 268 to 232 BCE
• Hannibal (246 BC–182 BC) — Carthaginian general (247–183/181 BC)
• Eratosthenes (275 BC–193 BC) — Greek mathematician, geographer, poet, astronomer, librarian and music theorist
• Cato the Elder (233 BC–148 BC) — Roman politician, soldier and writer (234–149 BC)
• Plautus (249 BC–183 BC) — Roman comic playwright (c. 254 – 184 BC)
• Terence (184 BC–158 BC) — Roman comic playwright (2nd cent. BC)
• Zeno of Citium (333 BC–262 BC) — Greek philosopher, founder of Stoicism
• Polybius (199 BC–119 BC) — ancient Greek historian
• Hipparchus (189 BC–119 BC) — 2nd century Greek astronomer, geographer and mathematician
• Aristarchus of Samos (309 BC–229 BC) — Greek astronomer and mathematician (c.310–c.230 BC)
• Apollonius of Perga (261 BC–189 BC) — ancient Greek geometer and astronomer noted for his writings on conic sections
• Scipio Africanus (234 BC–182 BC) — Roman general and politician (236/235–183 BC)
• Han Fei (279 BC–232 BC) — Chinese Legalist, 280–233 BCE
• Ennius (238 BC–168 BC) — Roman writer and poet (c. 239 – c. 169 BC)
• Emperor Gaozu of Han (255 BC–194 BC) — founding emperor of the Han dynasty (256–195 BC)
• Ptolemy II Philadelphus (307 BC–245 BC) — king of the Ptolemaic dynasty in Egypt (308–246 B.C.)
• Xunzi (312 BC–230 BC) — Chinese Confucian philosopher (c. 310 – after 238 BCE)
• Pharnavaz I of Iberia (325 BC–233 BC) — king of Iberia and Colchis
• Callimachus (305 BC–239 BC) — 3rd-century BC Greek poet, scholar and librarian
• Apollonius of Rhodes (294 BC–214 BC) — 3rd century BC Greek epic poet
• Antiochus III the Great (241 BC–186 BC) — sixth Seleucid emperor (223–187 BC)
• Manetho (201 BC–) — 3rd-century BC Egyptian historian and priest
• Livius Andronicus (279 BC–199 BC) — 3rd-century BC Greco-Roman dramatist and epic poet

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