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Seleucid Dynasty - LoveToKnow 1911 (3346 words) |
 | Antiochus I. Soter (324 or 323-262) was half a Persian, his mother Apame being one of those eastern princesses whom Alexander had given as wives to his generals in 324. |
| Antiochus seemed to have restored the Seleucid empire in the east, and the achievement brought him the title of "the Great King." In 205/4 the infant Ptolemy V. Epiphanes succeeded to the Egyptian throne, and Antiochus concluded a secret pact with Philip of Macedonia for the partition of the Ptolemaic possessions. |
| Cyzicenus (reigned 116-95), the son of Cyzicenus, Antiochus X. Eusebes (reigned 95-83?), and the son of Eusebes, Antiochus Xiii. |
| Antiochus X Eusebes (117 words) |
| Antiochus X Eusebes Philopator was another contestant in the tangled-up family feuds among the last Seleucids. |
| Beginning his reign in 95 BC his first achievement was to defeat his double half-cousin/second cousin Seleucus VI Epiphanes, thus avenging the recent death of his father Antiochus IX Cyzicenus. |
| A son of Antiochus X, by the name of Antiochus XIII Asiaticus, was made client-king in Syria after the Roman general Pompey had defeated Tigranes. |
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