What is "seleucus"

Seleucus may refer to:

Seleucus is a lunar impact crater located in the western part of Oceanus Procellarum. To the west is the lava-flooded remains of the walled plain Eddington. To the southwest is the crater Krafft and to the northwest lies Briggs.

The rim of Seleucus is well-formed, with a terraced inner rim and a slight rampart. The floor is relatively flat, with a small central peak. A bright ray from Glushko crater, about 500 km to the southwest, grazes the southeastern rim of Seleucus.

The narrowness of the rim of Seleucus and the abrupt contact between its raised rim and the surrounding mare prove that the final mare flooding occurred after the crater was formed, and so the crater is older than the youngest (uppermost) mare basalts in the vicinity.

Approximately 50 kilometers to the southeast of Seleucus, on the Oceanus Procellarum, is the landing site of the Soviet landing craft Luna 13.

Seleucus (c. 221) was a Roman usurper.

Seleucus was, according to 5th-century historian Polemius Silvius, a usurper against Emperor Elagabalus. His identity is not known: he could be Julius Antonius Seleucus, governor in Moesia, or Marcus Flavius Vitellius Seleucus, consul for 221.

Seleucus also known as Flavius Seleucus and Count Seleucus (; fl. 4th century) was a wealthy Greek rhetor who was a close friend of Libanius and the Roman emperor Julian the Apostate.

Seleucus was a wealthy Christian Roman Senator of Greek descent who lived in the second half of the 4th century and first half of the 5th century.

One of the parents of Seleucus, was the sibling to the great Christian Saint Olympias. Seleucus had one sibling, a sister called Olympias.

He was the second man named Seleucus in the family of Flavius Ablabius who had held consular rank in Constantinople. Seleucus is the known grandson of the Antiochian noblewoman Alexandra and her husband, the wealthy Rhetor Seleucus.

In his political career, Seleucus appeared to have been a Roman politician of some authority and prestige. In the year 412 and 414 until 415, Seleucus served as a Praetorian prefect for Italy in the Diocese of Africa, as his position was based in Carthage. His prefecture of Africa was served during the reign of the Western Roman Emperor Honorius who ruled 392 until 423 and his nephew Theodosius II, who ruled as Byzantine Emperor from 408 until 450 of the Theodosian dynasty.

During Seleucus’ time as prefect, various correspondences between him, Honorius and Theodosius II have survived. The letters reveal that Seleucus was a capable Roman official. After this moment, no more is known of Seleucus.

Seleucus ( Seleukos) was in 30 BC a commandant of the eastern Egyptian border-fortress Pelusium.

In the final stage of the decisive war between Mark Antony and Octavian for the sole rule of the Roman Empire Antony and his lover, the Egyptian queen Cleopatra VII, withdrew after their defeat in the Battle of Actium (September 2, 31 BC) to Egypt. In summer of 30 BC Octavian’s troops advanced from the West and the East against Egypt. At that time Seleucus was the commandant of Pelusium. But this eastern border-fortress surrendered so fast that Seleucus was suspected of having treacherously handed it over. The ancient biographer Plutarch also mentions the rumour that Seleucus had given it up with the consent of Cleopatra, but this assertion is doubted in the modern research. In any case the queen handed over Seleucus’s wife and children to Antony for execution. If the family members of Seleucus were really executed is unknown. There is also no information about the further fate of Seleucus.