Laodice (in Greek Λαοδικη; lived in the 3rd century BC), wife of Seleucus II Callinicus, was, according to the express statement of Polybius1, a sister of Andromachus, the father of Achaeus. She was the mother of Seleucus III Ceraunus and Antiochus III the Great. As her nephew, her father also was called Achaeus.

References

Polybius, Histories, Evelyn S. Shuckburgh (translator), London - New York, (1889)

Smith, William; Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, "Laodice (4)", Boston, (1867)

Note

• 1 Polybius, iv. 51, viii. 22
  

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