Editing Antiochus III the Great (section)

==Cultural portrayals==
*During the [[Caroline era]], the play ''[[Believe as You List]]'' was centred around Antiochus's resistance to the Romans after the [[Battle of Thermopylae (191 BC)|Battle of Thermopylae]]. The play was originally about [[Sebastian of Portugal]] surviving the [[Battle of Alcazar]], returning and trying to gather support to return to the throne. This first version was censored for being considered "[[subversive]]" because it portrayed Sebastian being deposed, it had comments in favour of an Anglo-Spanish alliance and it was possibly pro-[[Catholic]]. That led to the final version changing to the story of Antiochus, which led to historical inaccuracy in exaggerating his defeat at that phase in history to fit the earlier text and turning Spaniards into Romans and the Catholic [[eremite]] into a [[Stoicism|Stoic]] philosopher.{{citation needed|date=February 2018}}
*Antiochus features towards the end of Norman Barrow's historical novel, ''The High Priest'' (Faber & Faber, 1947), after his forces have reacquired Jerusalem from the Ptolemaic occupation. The book was noted by [[John Betjeman]] in the ''[[Daily Herald (UK newspaper)|Daily Herald]]'' as "interesting".<ref>{{cite news|title=Books – by John Betjeman|work=Daily Herald|date=22 April 1947|access-date=18 February 2018|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0000681/19470422/061/0004|page=4|via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription}}</ref>