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Headword: *se/leukos
Adler number: sigma,202
Translated headword: Seleukos, Seleucus
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
This man was surnamed Nikanor;[1] [he is the man] who gave to his own son Antiochos[2] his own wife Stratonike,[3] after Antiochos had conceived a passion for her, had fallen sick through his desire for her, and was concealing the fact but was diagnosed by Erasistratos the doctor.[4] And they say that Seleukos, when he was with Alexander the Macedonian and Alexander was sacrificing a bull, it ran away and Seleukos overcame it by himself, catching hold of its horns.[5] And for this reason, on the statue of him they have set horns on his head.
Greek Original:
*se/leukos: ou(=tos e)peke/klhto *nika/nwr: o(\s tw=| i)di/w| ui(w=| *)antio/xw| di/dwsi th\n e(autou= gunai=ka *stratoni/khn, e)rasqe/nti au)th=s kai\ dia\ to\n pro\s au)th\n e)/rwta a)sqenh/santi kai\ e)pikruptome/nw|, gnwsqe/nti de\ u(po\ *)erasistra/tou tou= i)atrou=. fasi\ de\ *se/leukon suno/nta *)aleca/ndrw| tw=| *makedo/ni tau=ron quome/nw| a)podra/nta, mo/non *se/leukon perigene/sqai au)tou= tw=n kera/twn krath/santa. kai\ dia\ tou=to tw=| a)ga/lmati au)tou= e)n th=| kefalh=| peritiqe/asi ke/rata.
Notes:
Seleucus I, c.358-281, one of the Successors of Alexander the Great (here 'Alexander the Macedonian'). See generally OCD4 s.v.
[1] Nikator ('Victor'), rather. [Some of the mss of the Suda have this variant; Adler made the wrong choice in not printing it.]
[2] Later King Antiochos I Soter. See generally OCD(4) s.v.
[3] Seleucus' second wife, daughter of Demetrius Poliorcetes (delta 431). See generally OCD(4) s.v.
[4] See epsilon 2896 and the notes there.
[5] The story is a paraphrase of Appian, Syriaca 292-294.
References:
Grainger, J. D. (1990), Seleukos Nikator: Constructing a Hellenistic Kingdom. London and New York: Routledge
Shipley, G. (2000), The Greek World after Alexander: 323-30 BC (London and New York: Routledge), 61, 286-7, and index s.v.
Keywords: art history; biography; gender and sexuality; history; women; zoology
Translated by: D. Graham J. Shipley on 13 October 2000@09:21:48.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmneted notes; added keywords; cosmetics; raised status) on 23 January 2001@06:51:40.
David Whitehead (more notes) on 23 December 2013@03:18:29.
David Whitehead (updated 3 refs) on 9 August 2014@10:13:30.
David Whitehead (tweaked notes; another keyword) on 15 January 2016@06:56:35.

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