Antioch College
a coeducational (non-sectarian) institution in Yellow Springs, O., organized in 1852; reported in 1919: Professors, 17; students, 165; president, G. D. Black.
ANTIOCHUS (an-ti'o-kus), a name of several Græco-Syrian kings ings of the dynasty of the Seleucidæ. ANTIOCHUS I., called Soter (savior), was a son of Seleucus, general of Alexander the Great, and founder of the dynasty. He was born about B. c. 324, and succeeded his father in B. c. 280. During the greater part of his reign he was engaged in a protracted struggle with the Gauls, who had crossed from Europe, and by whom he was killed in battle B. C. 261.
ANTIOCHUS II., surnamed Theos (god), succeeded his father, lost several provinces by revolt, and was murdered in B. C. 246 by Laodice, his wife, whom he had put away to marry Berenice, daughter of Ptolemy. ANTIOCHUS III., surnamed the Great, grandson of the preceding, was born B. c. 242, succeeded in B. c. 223. The early part of his reign embraced a series of wars, his expeditions extending to India, over Asia Minor, and into Europe, where he took possession of the Thracian Chersonese. Here he encountered the Romans, who had conquered Philip V. of Macedon. Antiochus gained an important adviser in Hannibal, who had fled for refuge to his court. The Romans defeated him by sea and land, and he was finally overthrown by Scipio at Mount Sipylus, in Asia Minor, B. C. 190. He was killed while plundering a temple in Elymais.
ANTIOCHUS IV., called Epiphanes, youngest son of the above, is chiefly remarkable for his attempt to extirpate the Jewish religion, and to establish in its place the polytheism of the Greeks.
This led to the insurrection of the Maccabees, by which the Jews ultimately recovered their independence. He died B. C. 164.
ANTIOQUIA (an-te-ō-kē'a), a department of Colombia, South America. It has considerable mineral wealth. Area, 22,752 square miles. Pop. about 750,000.
Capital, Medellin (pop. about 50,000).
ANTIPÆDOBAPIST, one who is opposed to the doctrine of infant baptism. ANTIPAROS (an-tipar-os), one of the Cyclades (islands), in the Grecian Archipelago, containing a famous stalactitic grotto or cave. It lies S. W. of Paros, from which it is separated by a ANTIPATER narrow strait, and has an area of 10 Laurentius, against Symmachus (498square miles, and about 500 inhabitants Its grotto is not alluded to by any Greek or Roman writer, but has been well known since 1673. At a depth of 918 feet under the entrance the chief chamber is reached. It is 31 feet long, 98 wide, and 82 high, and is covered everywhere with the most wonderful stalactite and stalagmite formations.
ANTIPATER (an-tip'a-ter), a general and friend of Philip of Macedon, father of Alexander the Great. On the death of Alexander, in 323 B. C., the regency of Macedonia was assigned to Antipater, who succeeded in establishing the Macedonian rule in Greece on a firm footing. He died in B. C. 317, at an advanced age.