Following the Roman general Lucullus ' defeat of both Mithridates and Tigranes in 69 BC, a rump Seleucid kingdom was restored under Antiochus XIII.

* Antiochus XIII Asiaticus is installed as king of Syria.

* Antiochus XIII Asiaticus ( died 64 BC ), one of the last rulers of the Seleucid Empire

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.

Antiochus XIII Dionysus Philopator Kallinikos, known as Asiaticus was one of the last rulers of the Macedonian Seleucid kingdom.

Selene was eventually captured and killed by Tigranes, but after the latter's defeat by Pompey, the residents of Antioch hailed Antiochus XIII as king, and Lucius Lucullus approved his appointment as client ruler of Syria ( 69 BC ).

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He competed with his second cousin Antiochus XIII Asiaticus for the favours of the great Roman general, but Pompey would have none of them and had Antiochus murdered.

Seleucus was unknown until recently: from coins issued by him and his mother, Ptolemaic princess Cleopatra Selene, it is presumed that he was her son by king Antiochus X Eusebes, and a brother of later king Antiochus XIII Asiaticus.

Though these brothers left Rome empty handed in about 72 B. C., their plight was not forgotten and Lucullus now elevated one of them as Syrian king: Antiochus XIII known as Asiaticus owing to the time he had spent living in Roman Asia province.

In the Gandhari original of Rock XIII, the Greek kings to the West are associated unambiguously with the term " Yona ": Antiochus is referred as " Amtiyoko nama Yona-raja " ( lit.

Cleopatra Selene I bore him two sons, one of them being Antiochus XIII Asiaticus.

One year later, the Romans disrupted the Armenian state, and Cleopatra Selene I's son, Antiochus XIII, the last king of the Seleucid dynasty, tried unsuccessfully to unify the state.

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* Scipio Africanus persuades the Roman Senate to continue the war against Antiochus III by making him the chief commander and allowing him and his brother, Lucius Cornelius Scipio Asiaticus, to follow Antiochus into Anatolia.

After an interval spent in the pursuit of Antiochus and the pacification of Greece, Cato was sent to Rome by the Consul Glabrio to announce the successful outcome of the campaign, and he performed his journey with such celerity that he had started his report in the senate before the arrival of Lucius Cornelius Scipio Asiaticus, the later conqueror of Antiochus, who had been sent off from Greece a few days before him.

As consular commander of the forces sent against Antiochus III, Asiaticus was a bitter enemy of the Aetolians.

During his brother's lifetime in 185 BC, Asiaticus celebrated with great splendour the games which he had vowed in his war with Antiochus.

Finally, in 190, he was elected consul along with Scipio's younger brother Scipio Asiaticus but failed to win the campaign against Antiochus III the Great which would have enrichened him.

* Marcus Aurelius Cotta, legate of Lucius Cornelius Scipio Asiaticus in 189 BC, during the war against Antiochus, returned to Rome with ambassadors to report the state of affairs to the Senate.

The first famous mention of the city is in 190 BC, when Antiochus the Great was defeated in the battle of Magnesia by the Roman consul Lucius Cornelius Scipio Asiaticus.

In the decisive battle of Magnesia with the Romans in 190 BC, Zeuxis was one of the commanders of the center, and after the defeat of Antiochus was one of the ambassadors sent to Scipio Asiaticus and Scipio Africanus to sue for peace, on which mission he proceeded to Rome.

* Antiochus IV of Syria is deposed by emperor Vespasian.

Diodotus had Antiochus VI deposed a few years later, and made himself king as Tryphon, but the division of the kingdom between the legitimate Seleucid heir and the usurper in Antioch persisted.

This first version was censored for being considered " subversive " because it portrayed Sebastian being deposed, its comments in favor of an Anglo-Spanish alliance and possible pro-Catholicism, which led to the final version changing to the story of Antiochus ( which led to historical inaccuracy in exaggerating his defeat at that phase in history to fit the earlier text ), turning Spaniards into Romans and the Catholic eremite into a Stoic philosopher.

As a general of the army, he promoted the claims of Antiochus VI Dionysus, the infant son of Alexander Balas, in Antioch after Alexander's death, but then in 142 deposed the child and himself seized power in Coele-Syria where Demetrius II Nicator was unpopular for his oppressive treatment of the Jews.

In 64 BC, Pompey had him deposed and killed by a Syrian chieftain Sampsiceramus I. Antiochus ' death is traditionally said to have ended the Seleucid dynasty, but he was survived by Philip II Philoromaeus for a short time.

The child Antiochus Epiphanes, who is known from coins, was deposed — but not killed — when Demetrius II was restored in 129 BC.

Jerome held that chapter eight describes the activity of Antiochus Epiphanes, who is understood as a " type " of a future antichrist ; 11: 24 onwards applies primarily to a future antichrist but was partially fulfilled by Antiochus.

" He ( Antiochus ) crossed the Caucasus and descended into India ; renewed his friendship with Sophagasenus the king of the Indians ; received more elephants, until he had a hundred and fifty altogether ; and having once more provisioned his troops, set out again personally with his army: leaving Androsthenes of Cyzicus the duty of taking home the treasure which this king had agreed to hand over to him ".

* Mariamne, who married Gaius Julius Archelaus Antiochus Epiphanes ; they had a daughter Berenice ( daughter of Mariamne ) AD who lived with her mother in Alexandria, Egypt after her parents divorce

* Antiochus XII Dionysus ( Epiphanes / Philopator / Callinicus ), ruler of the Seleucid Empire reigned 87 – 84 BC ; fifth son of Antiochus VIII Grypus

The Greek inscription reads ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ &# 32 ; ΑΝΤΙΟΧΟΥ ( of king Antiochus ).

) till 268 / 267 BC ; Antiochus put his son to death in the latter year on the charge of rebellion.

The Greek inscription reads ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ &# 32 ; ΑΝΤΙΟΧΟΥ ( of king Antiochus ).

He is not the king who oppressed Judea and was resisted by the Maccabees in the Jewish story of Hanukkah ; rather, that was his son, Antiochus IV.

After the defeat of Antiochus III in 190 BC they were included among the provinces annexed by the Romans to the dominions of Eumenes of Pergamum ; but somewhat later they joined with the Pisidians and Cilicians in piratical ravages, and Side became the chief centre and slave mart of these freebooters.

The Greek inscription reads ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ &# 32 ; ΑΝΤΙΟΧΟΥ ( king Antiochus ).

His original name was Mithridates ; he assumed the name Antiochus after he ascended the throne.

Cinnaeus served as a counselor to Ptolemy VI ; Heraclides is best known for negotiating the treaty that ended Antiochus IV's invasion of Egypt in 169 BC.

“ The whole situation resembles very closely that of Bérénice, in which two men, the Emperor Titus and King Antiochus, are in love with the heroine ; Bérénice, for her part, is in love with Titus and regards Antiochus as her dearest friend.

Hoping to further sew dissension amongst his foe, Phraates also released his long-held prisoner, Demetrius II, Antiochus ' older brother ; to return to Syria and reclaim the throne.

After Antiochus VII Sidetes, the Parthians regained the territory briefly lost ; and the Seleucid realm was now restricted to Syria.

Antiochus received the young prince ; and judging from his appearance, conversation, and the dignity of his manners that he was worthy of royal power, he first promised to give him one of his own daughters, and secondly conceded the royal title to his father.

The Greek inscription reads ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ &# 32 ; ΑΝΤΙΟΧΟΥ &# 32 ; ΦΙΛΟΠΑΤΟΡΟΣ ( king Antiochus Philopatros ).

According to Josephus ," Now Antiochus was not satisfied either with his unexpected taking the city, or with its pillage, or with the great slaughter he had made there ; but being overcome with his violent passions, and remembering what he had suffered during the siege, he compelled the Jews to dissolve the laws of their country, and to keep their infants uncircumcised, and to sacrifice swine's flesh upon the altar.