Seleucid Empire
Bisotun, Kermanshah Province, Iran
This statue was built around 153 A.D. At the time, Parthians were the Seleucid's main rivals in Iran. In the 20th century, however, the head was broken off and stolen. As a result the government built a new head and installed it on the body. According to the legends, since this Greek statue was naked, his private parts were damaged by the authorities after the Islamic revelation in 1979. As result, few features of this statue has been changed over the years comparing to the original design.
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مجسمه هرکول دوره سلوکی - بیستون، کرمانشاه
The Seleucid Empire was a Greek-Macedonian state that was created out of the eastern conquests of Alexander the Great. At the height of its power, it included central Anatolia, the Levant, Mesopotamia, Persia, today's Turkmenistan, Pamir and parts of Pakistan. The Seleucid Empire was a major center of Hellenistic culture which maintained the preeminence of Greek customs and where a Greek-Macedonian political elite dominated, mostly in the urban areas. The Greek population of the cities who formed the dominant elite were reinforced by emigration from Greece. Seleucid expansion into Anatolia and Greece was abruptly halted after decisive defeats at the hands of the Roman army. Their attempts to defeat their old enemy Ptolemaic Egypt was frustrated by Roman demands. Much of the eastern part of the empire was conquered by the Parthians under Mithridates I of Parthia in the mid-2nd century BC, yet the Seleucid kings continued to rule a rump state from Syria until the invasion by Armenian king Tigranes the Great and their ultimate overthrow by the Roman general Pompey.