title: Seleucus
text: # Seleucus
  
  Seleucus may refer to:
  
  ## Monarchs and other people related to the Seleucid Empire
  
  * Seleucus I Nicator (Satrap 311–305 BC, King 305 BC–281 BC), son of Antiochus and founder of the Seleucid Empire
  * Seleucus II Callinicus (246–225 BC)
  * Seleucus III Ceraunus (or Soter) (225–223 BC)
  * Seleucus IV Philopator (187–175 BC)
  * Seleucus V Philometor (126/125 BC)
  * Seleucus VI Epiphanes Nicator (96–95 BC)
  * Seleucus VII Kybiosaktes or Philometor (70s BC–60s BC?)
  * Seleucus, probable name of the father of Antiochus (father of Seleucus I Nicator)
  * Seleucus, a son of Antiochus I Soter and grandson to Seleucus I
  * Seleucus, one of the sons of Antiochus VII Sidetes and Cleopatra Thea
  * Seleucus (commandant), in 30 BC commandant of the eastern Egyptian border-fortress Pelusium
  
  ### Other people
  
  * Seleucus, son of Bithys, Ptolemaic governor of Cyprus (c.145-130 BC),
  * Seleucus of Alexandria, a grammarian and sophist,
  * Seleucus of Seleucia, an astronomer,
  * Seleucus (son of Ablabius), a rhetorician and friend of Julian the Apostate,
  * Seleucus (Theodosian Praetorian prefect), Praetorian prefect of the Theodosian dynasty,
  * Seleucus (Roman usurper), a Roman usurper.
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Seleucus (crater), a crater on Earth's moon
  * 3288 Seleucus, an asteroid
  