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called Faralya, holiday sailing the southwest Turkish coast where it turns from the mid-Aegean to the
eastern Mediterranean. Both are fertile territory for sailing the crossroads of history and have been since before
the coming of Alexander of Macedon in 334 BC. Among many who sailed here in the wake of Alexander was
Antiochus II Theos depicted to the left. He was the grandson of Seleucus I Nicator and the Bactrian Princess Apama,
the former an Alexander lieutenant who in the |
division of Alexander's
empire wound up with one of his own. The Seleucid Empire stretched at various times from Bactria (Afghanistan) in
the east to Macedonia in the west. Antiochus II reigned during the fifteen years from 261 BC. Early in his reign he
was at war with the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, another offspring of Alexander's empire, warring along Turkey's
Aegean and Mediterranean coasts and winning. He brought with him from his capital at Antioch (modern Antakya, Turkey)
his wife and first cousin Laodice, a granddaughter of the same Seleucus I Nicator and his bride Apama. Antiochus was
fond of good times some of which he found at Telmessus, modern Fethiye and hailing port of the ketch Faralya. He
also enjoyed himself at Miletus a bit further up the coast. It was in the liberation of Miletus that he obtained
the sobriquet Theos, Greek for God. Upon winning the war with Ptolemaic Egypt and regaining parts of
modern Turkey his father had earlier lost, Antiochus discarded and divorced Laodice, exiling her to Ephesus with
their son Seleucus, Ephesus still further up the Turkish coast opposite Greek Samos. He then sealed his military
victory by wedding Berenice, daughter of Egypt's Macedonian King Ptolemy II Philadelphus born on the Greek island
of Kos near Miletus. Berenice bore Antiochus another son who thereupon was declared heir apparent to the
Seleucid throne. Laodice did not care for this development, her own son being a direct descendant on both sides
of the empire's Macedonian founder. In fact, she was furious. She began plotting. She plotted so deviously that
Antiochus was seduced into abandoning Berenice, a plain-vanilla full-blooded Macedonian without the cunning of her
rival. Antiochus at age 40 returned to his first love who promptly slipped a little special-effect into one of his
good-times libations. On his death bed, according to Laodice, Antiochus reversed himself and re-named Seleucus heir.
Now the moral of this story is not that liquor kills gods as well as mortals, but rather that hell hath no greater
fury than a woman scorned. So whether you are dreaming of a Blue Cruise or of women, you might charter a crewed
sailing yacht to cruise through history along Turkey's southwest coast at the crossroads of history. Come
aboard Faralya, a crewed sailing yacht offering a holiday par excellence. Come aboard a charter yacht
with an experienced crew able to show you Antiochus's route up the Turkish coast from Telmessus to Ephesus, able to
show you as well the nearby Belevi monumental tomb where Antiochus is interred. A proper crewed yacht available for
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