The historians' history of the world in twenty-five volumes, volume 02
CHAPTER IX
FROM NEHEMIAH TO ANTIOCHUS (415-166 B.C.) 133
Under Persian rule, 133. Persian influences on Jewish religion, 134. Alexander the Great, 134. Under the Seleucids, 135. The Syrian dominion; Antiochus the Great, 138. Antiochus Epiphanes, 139. Jason and Antiochus torment the people, 140.