Death of Antiochus IV Epiphanes; Greek king of the Seleucid Empire from 175 BC until his death in 164 BC.; Illustration from the Dore Bible 1866. In 1866; the French artist and illustrator Gustave Doré (1832-1883); published a series of 241 wood engravings for a new deluxe edition of the 1843 French translation of the Vulgate Bible; popularly known as the Bible de Tours. This new edition was known as La Grande Bible de Tours and its illustrations were immensely successful. His death came in the wake of his persecution of the Jews of Judea and Samaria; and the rebellion of the Jewish Maccabees..