Antiochis (daughter of Antiochus III.)

Antiochis was a Hellenistic princess from the Seleucid dynasty and in the first half of the 2nd century BC. BC Queen of Cappadocia .

Life

Antiochis was a daughter of the Seleucid king Antiochus III, the great and Laodike . Some time before her father's war against the Romans , she married the Cappadocian king Ariarathes IV. Eusebes , who therefore supported his father-in-law in the battle of Magnesia (190 BC), the Antiochus III. lost anyway. She gave birth to her husband a son, who was called Mithridates before his accession to the throne and who succeeded his father as Ariarathes V. Eusebes Philopator , as well as two daughters, including Stratonike , who married the Pergamene king Eumenes II and then his brother and successor Attalus II .

According to a questionable report by the ancient Greek-Sicilian historian Diodorus , Antiochis, an allegedly unscrupulous woman, was sterile at the beginning of their marriage and therefore put two sons named Ariarathes and Orophernes on them . She gave birth to the three children mentioned later and then revealed the truth to her husband. Then she provided the older of the subordinated sons with sufficient funds to Rome and the younger to Ionia to enable her legitimate son to succeed to the throne undisturbed.

literature

Johannes Toepffer : Antiochis 5) . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 2, Stuttgart 1894, Col. 2449.
Jörg Gerber: Antiochis [4]. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 12/2, Metzler, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-476-01487-8 , column 895 f.

Remarks

↑ Appian , Syriaca 5.
↑ Titus Livius 37:31, 4; Appian, Syriaca 32.
↑ Diodorus 31, 19, 7; see. Livius (42, 19, 3), who announced the arrival of the young Ariarathes in Rome in 172 BC. And dubbed him as the son of King Ariarathes without questioning his legitimacy.

personal data
SURNAME	Antiochis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Daughter of Antiochus III, wife of Ariarathes IV.
DATE OF BIRTH	3rd century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	2nd century BC Chr.

[1] Appian , Syriaca 5.

[2] Titus Livius 37:31, 4; Appian, Syriaca 32.

[3] Diodorus 31, 19, 7; see. Livius (42, 19, 3), who announced the arrival of the young Ariarathes in Rome in 172 BC. And dubbed him as the son of King Ariarathes without questioning his legitimacy.