Laodike (daughter of Antiochus IV.)
Laodike was a daughter of the Seleucid king Antiochus IV. Herakleides, an exiled former finance minister, led her in 153 BC. Together with her alleged brother Alexander I. Balas to Rome , in order to enforce her as a candidate for the Seleucid throne against Demetrios I Soter in the Senate . The trip was successful for Alexander Balas and Laodike; As children of an ally of the Romans, they were allowed to return home with military support by a Senate resolution. Perhaps Laodice later became the wife of Mithridates V of Pontus ; then she would have him the later bitter enemy of the Romans Mithridates VI. Born of Pontos , who after a short period of joint rule had his mother tortured to death or poisoned in prison (this hypothesis is doubted by F. Stähelin (see lit.)).
literature
- Felix Stähelin : Laodike 23). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume XII, 1, Stuttgart 1924, Col. 708 f.
- Der Neue Pauly , Vol. 6, Col. 1130, Laodike [II 11] .
Remarks
- ↑ Polybios 33, 15, 1; 33, 18, 6 and 9
- ↑ Polybios 33, 18, 12
- ↑ Memnon , Fragment 30 in Karl Müller , Fragmenta historicorum Graecorum (FHG), III p. 541
- ^ Sallust , Historien , Fragment II 75 ed. Maurenbrecher
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| SURNAME | Laodike |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Daughter of the Seleucid King Antiochus IV. |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 2nd century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd century BC Chr. |