Antiochus IV Epiphanes (called Epimanes, the Mad One), c. 215-164 BC, Hellenistic king of the Seleucid Empire. Known for his persecution of the Jews of Judea and Samaria. Antiochus Epipha. Copperplate engraving by Pieter Bodart (1676-1712) from Henricus Spoor’s Deorum et Heroum, Virorum et Mulierum Illustrium Imagines Antiquae Illustatae, Gods and Heroes, Men and Women, Illustrated with Antique Images, Petrum, Amsterdam, 1715. First published as Favissæ utriusque antiquitatis tam Romanæ quam Græcæ in 1707. Henricus Spoor was a Dutch physician, classical scholar, poet and writer, fl. 1694-1716.

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