Just A Few Hellenistic Kings

Neat! Another Syrian War! 

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 the “judah macabee was a fascist” hot takes that come around every hanukkah are living proof that we need him now more than ever

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Post this in any selucid bootlicking articles you see

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have your name and governance become a central model in the First Servile War

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it's aways valid to get a shout-out in the bible just for being a horrible person

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war elephants are a valid currency

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build not ONE but TWO inappropriately large fortresses on the top of steep mountains with inexplicably huge store buildings and make historians wonder why the FUCK you did that

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start beef with the ptolemaic dynasty

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call your daughters either Laodike or Stratonike and marry a Berenike every now and again

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call your sons either Seleucus or Antiochus, with the occasional Philip 

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periodically drive the parthians out of babylon

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build 16 Antiocheias because CLEARLY ONE IS NOT ENOUGH

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choose multilingual documents over personal multilinguism because that is not a royal virtue!

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Graciously accept the cult around you that the poleis offer

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Passive-aggressively remind the poleis that it was you who freed them from barbaric slavery

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be a good father and let your son marry your second wife

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two words: imitatio alexandri

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create an empire that is way more organized than alexander's

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declare yourself a god

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turn your whole dynasty into a cult