The Seleucid army, an imposing heir to Alexander the Great’s military legacy, stood as one of the Hellenistic period’s most powerful, expansive forces. It could marshal tens of thousands of ...

Already Beth-horon had been the site of a notable victory by Jewish guerrillas against an occupying force—it had been where the Maccabees had defeated the Greco-Syrian Seleucid army in 166 BC ...