Maccabeus, Jonathan Apphus, and Simon Thassi, and his grandson John Hyrcanus . Seleucid rule over Israel Hellenization Coin with portrait of Antiochus IV. Reverse shows Apollo seated on an omphalos . The Greek inscription reads ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΝΤΙΟΧΟΥ ΘΕΟΥ ΕΠΙΦΑΝΟΥ ΝΙΚΗΦΟΡΟΥ (King Antiochus, the holy Ephiphanus, Nikanor. The Hellenization of the Jews