Seleucus (commandant)

Seleucus was 30 BC a Ptolemaic commander of the eastern Egyptian defense item Pelusium.

In the final stage of the decisive military confrontation between the triumvirs Mark Antony and Octavian ( later Emperor Augustus ) to the autocratic rule of the Roman Empire withdrew Antony and his lover, the Ptolemaic Queen Cleopatra VII, after their defeat at the Battle of Actium ( 2 September 31 BC) to Egypt. In the summer of 30 BC, Octavian's armies marched from the west and east front against the land of the Nile. At that time Seleucus, the commander of the eastern border post Pelusium, but so striking quickly capitulated, that Seleucus was suspected to have passed the Bastion treacherous. The ancient biographer Plutarch mentions that Seleucus was rumored to be traded for his supposed betrayal without the consent of Cleopatra, but that statement is doubted in modern research. The Queen was in any case Seleucus ' wife and children Antonius put to execution, but it is not known whether the relatives of Seleucus were actually executed. Also to Seleucus further fate is no information available.