| Outside these old towns, the first Seleucids developed an important politics of city founding. |
| The old Mesopotamian cities continued, as in the preceding period, their own life under the Seleucids. |
| Other coins dating back to the times of the Seleucids Kingdom have been discovered on the same island. |
| This service had been interrupted by the Seleucids and all the oil in the Temple had been defiled. |
| Now not only Rome's allies against Philip, but even Philip himself, sought a Roman alliance against the Seleucids. |
| The remarkable thing is that the Hasidim-Pharisees who were the fathers of the Talmud did not wish to record therein their war and the military victory against the Seleucids. |
