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. The epithets he took tell much of his story: Eusebes (being a title of his father) and also Philopator (father-loving) both honoured his father. After that, he ruled Antioch and its surroundings, fighting endlessly against the four brothers of Seleucus VI, the Nabataeans and the Parthians. The date of his downfall are ambigious; Josephus reckons he was killed around 90 BC fighting the Parthians - and his possession of Antioch was certainly lost to Armenian king Tigranes invaded Syria by 83 BC, but in that case his actions in the meantime remain unrevealed. A son of Antiochus X, by the name of Antiochus XIII Asiaticus, was made client-king in Syria after the RomangeneralPompey had defeated Tigranes.
AntiochusXEusebes 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 AntiochusX, by the name of Antiochus XIII Asiaticus, was made client-king in Syria after the RomangeneralPompey had defeated Tigranes.
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, AntiochusX. Eusebes (reigned 95-83?), and the son of Eusebes, Antiochus Xiii.