Seleucus VII
Seleucus VII was a minor member of the Seleucid dynasty , he lived in the first half of the 1st century BC. Chr.
Life
Seleucus VII was the son of the Seleucid king Antiochus X and his wife Cleopatra V as well as the younger brother of Antiochus XIII. At the request of their mother, the two brothers left in 75 BC. BC to Rome to ask the Senate for confirmation of their claims to the Egyptian throne, which the illegitimate Ptolemy XII. held. Although they had donated a beautiful candelabra for the Capitoline Temple in order to win over the senators, they were not received by the influential Romans and finally had to leave after two years without having achieved anything.
Mostly it is assumed in research that the younger brother of Antiochus XIII. is identical with that Seleucus, who 57 BC Was determined by the Alexandrians as the husband of their Queen Berenike IV (a sister of the famous Cleopatra VII ). Because of his gross manners, he was mockingly called Kybiosaktes (= "salt fish dealer"). After a few days, however, Berenike IV had him strangled - allegedly because of his primitiveness. He is probably also identical with the Seleucid prince whom Porphyrios called Berenike's suitor, who died of a serious illness. If one accepts this equation, one can conclude that apparently different versions of his death have been circulated; one could come from the friends, the other from the enemies of the Egyptian queen.
See also: List of Seleucid rulers
literature
- Felix Stähelin : Seleukos 10 and 11. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume II A, 1, Stuttgart 1921, Sp. 1246.
- Werner Huss : Egypt in the Hellenistic Period. Munich 2001, pp. 678f., 692f., ISBN 3-406-47154-4 .
- Günther Hölbl : History of the Ptolemaic Empire. Darmstadt 1994, pp. 195, 201, ISBN 3-534-17675-8 .
Remarks
- ↑ his name is not recorded in the sources
- ↑ Cicero , Verres 2, 4, 61, 64f. 67f.
- ↑ Strabo 17, 1, 11, p. 796; Cassius Dio 39, 57, 1f. (According to this source, Seleucus only feigned belonging to the Seleucid family); see. Suetonius , Vespasian 19, 2
- ↑ Felix Jacoby : The Fragments of the Greek Historians (FGrH), No. 260, F 32, 28
- ↑ cf. Huss (see lit.), p. 693, note 94
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Seleucus VII |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cybiosacts |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Member of the Seleucid dynasty |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 2nd century BC BC or 1st century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1st century BC Chr. |