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Aldux, There is no evidence whatsoever for your claim of Seleucus having any success against the Mauryas. If anything, the vast majority of historians (your unnamed and questionable sources being the exceptions) advanced the opposite. Ancient Western historians, Justin through Strabo, would've been celebrating this "advance" to Pataliputra. Moreover, Seleucus would not have voluntarily ceded half his empire, especially for 500 elephants (they would've been his anyways according to your notion). There's enough of this philhellenic fantasy floating around on other pages. Please don't add to it. Regards, Devanampriya
Is the first image really a bust of Seleucus I Nicator? This image looks like a picture of the same bust which is labeled here as "Bust of Attalus I, circa 200 BCE from [1] ". Paul August ☎ 18:12, July 14, 2005 (UTC)
I've done a bit more research. The image file Image:seleukos_nikator.jpg says: "From http://www.livius.org/l, in the public domain". However following that link gives a different image for Seleucus I Nicator. So, assuming the uploader didn't make a mistake, I'm wondering if the cite originally had this image, found it to be "incorrect" and has since changed it. Paul August ☎ 18:28, July 14, 2005 (UTC)
I asked the uploader of the image about this and he responded:
If someone wants to upload the image from the Livius site (assuming there are no copyright problems) we can add that image here. For now I've removed the image from the page and moved one of the first coin image up. Paul August ☎ 22:54, July 15, 2005 (UTC)
Seleucus had three children yet four are named? I would change it but I don't know how.
This complaint is correct. Achaios is not attested as a son of Seleukos and probably wasn't. The families were certainly closely related, but Achaios was more likely a younger brother or first cousin.. 203.192.77.228 ( talk) 23:18, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
What was his religion? I think it must be added. Bladesmulti ( talk) 03:48, 23 September 2013 (UTC)
"A cult of personality formed around the later members of the Seleucid dynasty and Seleucus was later worshipped as a son of god." Which one? JanderVK ( talk) 21:13, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
Pls, let me do it — Preceding unsigned comment added by Stavfrombc ( talk • contribs) 15:33, 22 May 2018 (UTC)
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is basically the same as what's parked at Wiktionary but both are unsourced and, frankly, dubious. (a) This guy doesn't come up a lot in conversation and English (mis)pronunciation is going to be whatever feels natural to native speakers, which at least in my neck of the woods is going to involve the vowel /ɛ/ at some point. If there's no solid agreement or obvious mispronunciation, we don't need to list the IPA here at all. (b) If there's actually an accepted scholarly pronunciation, fine, provide it and source it. If there isn't, remove it from the lead ( WP:NOTDICT) and we can start laundry listing variants at Wiktionary. (c) The language mess in the lead is actually very well formatted, but it's still a mess. The article would be better served by shunting most of it down to a #Name or #Names section and only leaving the Greek and its transliteration in the lead sentence. — LlywelynII 20:12, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
Here's one historical pron source that disagrees with the sound and stress of what's provided here. Might be an issue with many more people saying the name of the dynasty, where the stress shifts back. Doesn't change that plenty of people won't use a schwa here. (Nor should they, afaict.) First Google Books result with a pron is bizarre; second is semiclassical; but neither's what's here. — LlywelynII 20:21, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
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![]() | This article was edited to contain a total or partial translation of Seleukos I Nikator from the Finnish Wikipedia. Consult the history of the original page to see a list of its authors. |
Aldux, There is no evidence whatsoever for your claim of Seleucus having any success against the Mauryas. If anything, the vast majority of historians (your unnamed and questionable sources being the exceptions) advanced the opposite. Ancient Western historians, Justin through Strabo, would've been celebrating this "advance" to Pataliputra. Moreover, Seleucus would not have voluntarily ceded half his empire, especially for 500 elephants (they would've been his anyways according to your notion). There's enough of this philhellenic fantasy floating around on other pages. Please don't add to it. Regards, Devanampriya
Is the first image really a bust of Seleucus I Nicator? This image looks like a picture of the same bust which is labeled here as "Bust of Attalus I, circa 200 BCE from [1] ". Paul August ☎ 18:12, July 14, 2005 (UTC)
I've done a bit more research. The image file Image:seleukos_nikator.jpg says: "From http://www.livius.org/l, in the public domain". However following that link gives a different image for Seleucus I Nicator. So, assuming the uploader didn't make a mistake, I'm wondering if the cite originally had this image, found it to be "incorrect" and has since changed it. Paul August ☎ 18:28, July 14, 2005 (UTC)
I asked the uploader of the image about this and he responded:
If someone wants to upload the image from the Livius site (assuming there are no copyright problems) we can add that image here. For now I've removed the image from the page and moved one of the first coin image up. Paul August ☎ 22:54, July 15, 2005 (UTC)
Seleucus had three children yet four are named? I would change it but I don't know how.
This complaint is correct. Achaios is not attested as a son of Seleukos and probably wasn't. The families were certainly closely related, but Achaios was more likely a younger brother or first cousin.. 203.192.77.228 ( talk) 23:18, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
What was his religion? I think it must be added. Bladesmulti ( talk) 03:48, 23 September 2013 (UTC)
"A cult of personality formed around the later members of the Seleucid dynasty and Seleucus was later worshipped as a son of god." Which one? JanderVK ( talk) 21:13, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
Pls, let me do it — Preceding unsigned comment added by Stavfrombc ( talk • contribs) 15:33, 22 May 2018 (UTC)
The following Wikimedia Commons file used on this page has been nominated for deletion:
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is basically the same as what's parked at Wiktionary but both are unsourced and, frankly, dubious. (a) This guy doesn't come up a lot in conversation and English (mis)pronunciation is going to be whatever feels natural to native speakers, which at least in my neck of the woods is going to involve the vowel /ɛ/ at some point. If there's no solid agreement or obvious mispronunciation, we don't need to list the IPA here at all. (b) If there's actually an accepted scholarly pronunciation, fine, provide it and source it. If there isn't, remove it from the lead ( WP:NOTDICT) and we can start laundry listing variants at Wiktionary. (c) The language mess in the lead is actually very well formatted, but it's still a mess. The article would be better served by shunting most of it down to a #Name or #Names section and only leaving the Greek and its transliteration in the lead sentence. — LlywelynII 20:12, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
Here's one historical pron source that disagrees with the sound and stress of what's provided here. Might be an issue with many more people saying the name of the dynasty, where the stress shifts back. Doesn't change that plenty of people won't use a schwa here. (Nor should they, afaict.) First Google Books result with a pron is bizarre; second is semiclassical; but neither's what's here. — LlywelynII 20:21, 12 February 2024 (UTC)