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Bronze replica "portrait of a ruler" – possibly of Seleceus I Nicator, featured at the
Getty Villa (surnamed for later generations Nicator, Σέλευκος Νικάτωρ, i.e. Seleucus Victor) (
ca. 358 BCE – 281 BCE), was a
Macedonian officer of
Alexander the Great. In the Wars of the Diadochi that took place after Alexander's death, Seleucus established the Seleucid dynasty and the
Seleucid Empire. His kingdom would be one of the last hold-outs of Alexander's former empire to Roman rule. They were only outlived by the
Ptolemaic Kingdom in
Egypt by roughly 34 years.
