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Message:: [QUOTE="Al Kowsky, post: 8090357, member: 97383"]Gino, I think it's worth mentioning that Jews also participated in the founding of Antioch in 300 BC, & may have been part of the native population before that. Jewish mercenary soldiers under the command of Alexander the Great were among those given the right to settle in Antioch by Seleukos I. As reported by Josephus, they were given full citizenship & the same rights as Greeks who settled there. The Jews lived in the southeastern corner of the city, outside the walls that Seleukos I built, but inside the walls of Tiberius. Jewish slaves were also brought to Antioch after losing two wars against Rome. Jews living in Antioch belonged to all social & economic classes, from the educated elite to the ghettoized poor who did manual labor & farm work. They also had a large population living in the wealthy suburb of Daphne. The demise of the Jews began under the rule of Christian Roman emperors who promulgated legislation against pagans & Jews, by restricting their rights.An attractive series of tetradrachms depicting the turreted head of Tyche was coined in Seleukeia, see the example below. [ATTACH=full]1406009[/ATTACH] Seleukis & Pieria, Seleukeia. AR Tetradrachm: 15.00 gm, 34 mm, 12 h, dated Year 18 (92-91 BC).[/QUOTE]