Alexander II Zabinas

Relatives:

• Father: Perhaps Alexander I Balas

• November 132: Outbreak of civil war in Egypt between Ptolemy VIII Euergetes Physcon and his sister Cleopatra II
• 128: the Seleucid king Demetrius II Nicator tries to intervene in the Egyptian civil war, supporting Cleopatra, the mother of his first wife Cleopatra Thea
• Ptolemy VIII supports Alexander II Zabinas, a rebel in the Seleucid Empire
• 125: When Demetrius wages war against Alexander II Zabinas and fights near Tyre (March), he is killed near Damascus.
• In spite of support from the Hasmonaean leader John Hyrcanus, Alexander is unable to conquer Syria, where Demetrius' son Antiochus VIII Grypus succeeds his father
• 123: Alexander is defeated, captured, and executed

• Diodorus of Sicily, Library of World History, 34/35.22, 28
• Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, 13.269