I have to admit that I myeslf never heard too much about the Seleucid Empire before I bought Rome
And I also learned a lot from it - I hadn't known about the kind of warfare the romans had before the Marian Reforms.
I had never heard of a Ptolemaic Dynasty before (actually only the name Cleoptar seeemd fermiliar).
I had hardly heard of Phyruss before (I guess EB depicts him more accuratly but Rome also mentioned him)
I also got some insight on how ancient warfare worked - before that I couldn't even Imagine it - movies were to predetermined for me

It was the spark which started my interest for Ancient history - till then I was only interested about the history of the 20. century.

And a few more guestions to the people:

Who was Attila??
Name atleast two theories about his death... (I'm not really expectig an answer)
Who was the first Emperor of the Rome Empire?
Which Roman emperor ordered the consturction of the Wall (or boder defense) in Northern England?
(and a funny one: Was the Seldjuk Empire the direct heir to the Seleucid empire?