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  Seleuciden - Wikipedia
Na een korte expansie onder Antiochus de Grote raakte het rijk van de Seleuciden snel in verval tijdens de 2e eeuw v.
Antiochus VI Dionysus (of Epiphanes) (145 - 140 v.
Antiochus VII Sidetes (of Euergetes) (138 - 129 v.
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 CalendarHome.com - 96 BC - Calendar Encyclopedia
Seleucus VI Epiphanes becomes king of the Seleucid Empire following the death of his father Antiochus VIII Grypus, and defeating in battle Antiochus IX Cyzicenus.
Antiochus VIII Grypus, king of the Seleucid Empire (murdered)
Antiochus IX Cyzicenus, king of the Seleucid Empire (died in battle)
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 Antiochus VIII Grypus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Antiochus VIII Epiphanes/Callinicus/Philometor, nicknamed Grypus (hook-nose) was son of Demetrius II Nicator and was crowned as a boy in 125 BC after his mother Cleopatra Thea had killed his elder brother Seleucus V Philometor, ruling jointly with her.
After Antiochus defeated usurper Alexander II Zabinas in 123 BC his mother tried to poison him with wine, but the suspicious king forced her to drink the cup herself.
Cyzicenus' wife, also named Cleopatra, was a half-sister of Tryphaena and was eventually killed in a dramatic fashion in the temple of Daphne outside Antioch, on the order of Tryphaena.
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 Antiochus IX Cyzicenus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Antiochus IX Eusebes was the son of Antiochus VII Sidetes and Cleopatra Thea.
He returned to Syria in 116 BC to claim the Seleucid throne from half-brother/cousin Antiochus VIII Grypus, with whom he eventually divided Syria.
He was killed in battle by the son of Grypus, Seleucus VI Epiphanes in 96 BC.
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 Seleucus VI Epiphanes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Seleucus VI Epiphanes was the oldest son of Antiochus VIII Grypus.
However, the score was evened the next year (95 BC) by Antiochus X Eusebes, the son of Antiochus Cyzicenus, and Seleucus was forced to flee from Syria to Mopsuestia in Cilicia, where he set up his court, allegedly in luxorious style.
Four of Seleucus' brothers, including Antiochus XI Ephiphanes Philadelphus, Philip I Philadelphus, and Demetrius III Euergetes, continued the devastating civil war against the other branch of the family and each other.
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 Cleopatra Thea biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Their children were Seleucus V Philometor, Antiochus VIII Grypus, and possibly a daughter (Laodice?).
Antiochus became less controllable as he grew up and in 121 BC, she decided to eliminate him.
Since this was not common behavior for her, Antiochus was suspicious and forced her to drink the wine, with the predictable outcome.
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 Banks/Dean Genealogy - Person Page 225
Mithradates I Kallinikos married Laodice Thea Philadelphos, daughter of Antiochus VIII Philometor Grypus "Hook-Nose" and Tryphaena (?).
Antiochus I Theos married Isias Philostorgos, daughter of Ariobarzanes I of Cappadocia and Athenais I Philostorgos.
Isias Philostorgos married Antiochus I Theos, son of Mithradates I Kallinikos and Laodice Thea Philadelphos.
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 Seleucid dynasty - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Antiochus the Great now plundered temple treasures, but this policy got him killed in Luristan in western Persia (Iran) and seriously damaged loyalty to the dynasty.
Antiochus IV Epiphanes (175-164 BC), notorious in history for his conflict with the Jews (the Maccabean insurrection) carried out an initially successful campaign in Persia but died along the way.
Antiochus III the Great, 223-187 BC In 140 BC, the Seleucid king Demetrius II deciced that enough was enough and summoned whatever resources he had to check the Parthian advance.
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 Glossary
Antiochus I was the son of Seleucus I, founder of the dynasty, and Apama I. Joint-king with his father from 292, he succeeded him early in 280 and ruled until his death on 1 or 2 June 261.
Antiochus V Eupator, son of Epiphanes and Laodice, was put to death by the army in 162 on the arrival in Syria of his cousin Demetrius I Soter, the younger son of Seleucus IV and Epiphanes’ rightful successor.
Antiochus VI Epiphanes Dionysus, the infant son of the pretender Alexander Balas (ruled 150-145), was put forward as king by Diodotus (Tryphon) in 143, dethroned by him in 142 and murdered by him in 138.
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 Antiochus XI Ephiphanes: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Antiochus XI Ephiphanes
Antiochus XI Epiphanes or Philadelphus, son of Antiochus VIII Grypus and brother of Seleucus VI Epiphanes, could frankly be characterized as insignificant - a minor participant in the civil wars which clouded the last years of the once glorious Seleucids, now reduced to local dynasts in Syria.
Following the defeat of his brother in 95 B.C. by Antiochus X Eusebes, Antiochus XI and yet another brother, Philip I Philadelphus, opted for revenge and besieged Antiochia.
After the campaign had ended in defeat, Antiochus was forced to flee but drowned in the river Orontes while trying to cross it on horseback.
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 antiochus
Antiochus was the name of several Syrian kings between 280 BC to 65 BC.
He was a "vile person." In a spirit of revenge he organized an expedition against Jerusalem, which he destroyed, putting vast multitudes of its inhabitants to death in the most cruel manner.
Enraged at this, Antiochus marched against them in person, threatening utterly to exterminate the nation; but on the way he was suddenly arrested by the hand of death (164 BC).
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 Antiochus VII Sidetes - Wikpedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Antiochus VII Eumenes, nick-named Sidetes (from Sidon), reigned 138–129 BC and was the last Seleucid king of any stature.
The brother of Demetrius II, Antiochus was elevated after Demetrius' capture by the Parthians, also marrying his wife Cleopatra Thea.
Their offspring was Antiochus IX, thus both half-brother and cousin of Seleucus V and Antiochus VIII.
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 Antiochus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Antiochus is the name of thirteen kings of the Seleucid dynasty:
Antiochus IV Epiphanes, the oppressor of the Jews who provoked the revolt of the Maccabees.
Antiochus is also the name of four rulers of the small middle-eastern kingdom of Kommagene:
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 SFAGN: Numismatic and Historic Miscellanea / Numismatic Evidence For A New Seleucid King: Seleucus (VII) Philometor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
She was married at least four times, to Ptolemy VIII Lathyrus, and to the Seleucid kings Antiochus VIII Grypus, Antiochus IX Cyzicenus, and Antiochus X Eusebes.
Grypus and Cyzicenus were half brothers, both sons of Cleopatra Thea, by Demetrius II and Antiochus VII Sidetes respectively.
He dated it to 92 BC, after Antiochus X was killed by the Parthians, in the interval just before the occupation of the city by Demetrius III, and before the beginning of the long series of dated autonomous bronzes of the city which runs from 92/91 BC well into the period of Tigranes’ control.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Seleucids
The marriage of Antiochus II to Berenice, daughter of Ptolemy II Philadelphus, brought about a temporary cessation of the struggle; but on Ptolemy's death, Laodice, the first and disowned wife of Antiochus, was recalled and avenged herself by having Antiochus, Berenice, and their child put to death.
PHILIP continued the war, and succeeded in securing possession of at least a portion of Syria, while the fourth son of Antiochus VIII, DEMETRIUS III EUCERUS, was elevated to the rank of king in Damascus by Ptolemy Soter II of Egypt.
Antiochus X was finally overcome by the brothers, Philip and Demetrius.
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 DEMETRIUS - LoveToKnow Article on DEMETRIUS
His cruelties and vices, however, caused him to be greatly detested, and during another civil war he was defeated in a battle at Damascus, and killed near Tyre, possibly at the instigation of his wife, a daughter of Ptolemy VII., who was indignant at his subsequent marriage with a daughter of the Parthian king, Mithradates.
By the assistance of Ptolemy X. Lathyrus, king of Egypt, he recovered part of his Syrian dominions from Antiochus X. Eusebes, and held his court at Damascus.
His portrait of Pellichus, a Corinthian general, with fat paunch and bald head, wearing a cloak which leaves him half exposed, with some of the hairs of his head flowing in the wind, and prominent veins, was admired by Lucian.
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 Cleopatra Thea   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
According to Justin 39.2, Grypus forced Alexander II Zabinas to drink poison, and later attempted to poison his half-brother Antiochus IX Cyzicenus.
Schoene) 257 to be daughters of Antiochus VII, even though Porphyry stresses not only that these girls had the same name but also that they both died young of disease along with their brother Antiochus, although a bit later in the same passage he only mentions one as dying with him.
Bouché-Leclercq suggests that Antiochus had taken the eldest son and daughter of Demetrius II with him on the expedition as leverage to assure the cooperation of Demetrius should he succeed in freeing him from Parthian captivity, which was the nominal aim of the expedition.
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 First Maccabees: The remarkable story of the Maccabees.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Jason, the brother of Onias III, bribed Antiochus IV to be appointed high priest at Jerusalem and arranged for the conversion of Jerusalem into a polis.
Antiochus was soon displaced as king by his cousin Demetrius (I Maccabees 7:1-4), who continued to support the Hellenists in Judea by appointing a man named Alcimus as high priest (vv.
Antiochus confirmed the status of Jonathan as high priest, governor, and "Friend of the king,'' and he made Simon governor of territory on the Mediterranean coast "from the Ladder of Tyre to the borders of Egypt'' (11:57-59).
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 SFAGN: Numismatic and Historic Miscellanea / The End of the Seleucids   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Grypus entered the capital in the summer of 112, and the city’s fall was the occasion for a particularly bloody episode in the royal tragedy.
Tryphaena, Grypus’ wife, was implacably hostile to her sister Cleopatra and, in spite of her husband’s protests, demanded and secured her execution, doubly shocking because the unfortunate victim had taken sanctuary in a temple which was desecrated by her murder.
Antiochus addresses his correspondent as “his brother King Ptolemy Alexander.” Now this Ptolemy, the younger son of Cleopatra (III) had been sent as governor to Cyprus in 113/2 and was not officially king in Alexandria until 108/7, when his mother exiled her elder son and summoned the younger one.
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 Cleopatra (International Standard Bible Encyclopedia) :: Bible Tools   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
She attempted unsuccessfully to poison her second son by Nicator, Antiochus VIII (Grypus), for whom she had secured the succession, because he was unwilling to concede to her what she considered her due Share of power.
She had also a son by Antiochus VII (Sidetes Antiochus Cyzicenus), who took his name from the place in which he was educated.
The name Cleopatra was borne by many Egyptian princesses, the first of whom was daughter of Antiochus III and was married to Ptolemy V (Epiphanes) 193 BC.
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 Seleucids
Ptolemy VI Cleopatra Thea, daughter of Ptolemy VI and Cleopatra II (married to Alexander Balas in 150, Demetrius II in 146, and Antiochus VII in 138; mother of Antiochus VIII)
Ptolemy VIII Euergetes II 170-63; 145-116 murdered Ptolemy VII and married his mother, Cleopatra II, the widow of Ptolemy VI.
Antiochus IX Kyzikenos 119 (113?) -95 Son of Antiochus VII and Cleopatra Thea
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 Tryphaena   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Porphyry names Antiochus XI as twin brother of Philip I, who is specifically called a son of Tryphaena.
It is possible that Antiochus VIII had a second wife in the near-decade between the death of Tryphaena and his marriage to Cleopatra Selene but there is no evidence for it.
From the coins, the start of the civil war between Antiochus VIII and Antiochus IX can be dated to the latter part of the year 199 SE = 114/3, which is the date for the earliest coins of Antiochus IX from Antioch, i.e.
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 The Seleucid Empire (Syria)
But c.246, during a short interregnum, the Seleucids lost much territory in the east, where the Parni nomads settled themselves in the satrapy of Parthia -in northeastern Iran- and the satrapy of Bactria (northern Afghanistan) became independent.
The Seleucid king Antiochus III the Great was able to reconquer these territories between 209 and 204.
In the southwest, the Seleucid kings fought several "Syrian wars" with the Egyptians; in 200, their king was forced to cede Palestine to Antiochus III.
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 Antiochus VII Sidetes - Enpsychlopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Antiochus married Cleopatra Thea, who was the wife of Demetrius.
Their offspring was Antiochus IX, who thus became both half-brother and cousin to Seleucus V and Antiochus VIII.
Sidetes defeated the usurper Tryphon and laid siege to Jerusalem.
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 Antiochus VIII Grypus - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Antiochus VIII Grypus - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
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The article about Antiochus VIII Grypus contains information related to Antiochus VIII Grypus.
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 Demetrius II of Syria   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In 141 BC he marched against Mithridates I of ParthiaMithradates I, king of Parthia, but was taken prisoner by treachery, and remained in captivity for ten years, regaining his throne in 129 BC on the death of his brother, Antiochus VII SidetesAntiochus VII/, who had usurped it.
During his absence, the throne was occupied in turn by Antiochus VI Dionysus, Diodotus Tryphon, and Antiochus VII Sidetes.
His second successor was his son, Antiochus VIII Grypus.
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 Seleucid dynasty - Wikipedia
Antiochus I Soter (co-ruler from 291, ruled 281-261 B.C.)
Cleopatra Thea (126 B.C.)  :Antiochus VIII (126-121 B.C.)
Philip I Philadelphus (95-84/83 B.C.)  :Antiochus XII Dionysus (87-84 B.C.)
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 Antiochus XI Epiphanes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Antiochus XI Epiphanes o Philadelphus, hijo de Antiochus VIII Grypus y hermano de Seleucus VI Epiphanes, se podría franco caracterizar como insignificante - un participante de menor importancia en las guerras civiles que se nublaron los años pasados del Seleucids una vez glorioso, ahora reducidas a los dynasts locales en Siria.
Después de la derrota de su hermano en 95 B.C. por Antiochus X Eusebes, Antiochus XI pero otro hermano, Philip I Philadelphus, optó por venganza y sitió Antiochia.
Después de que la campaña hubiera terminado en derrota, Antiochus fue forzado para huir sino para ahogarse en el río Orontes mientras que intentaba cruzarlo encendido a caballo.
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 Antiochus VIII Grypus Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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