Antiochus XII Dionysus
Successor of: Demetrius III Eucaerus (or Philopator)
Relatives:
- Father: Antiochus VIII Grypus
- Mother: Cleopatra V Selene
- After 95, the brothers Demetrius and Philip were rulers of one of the remains of the Seleucid Empire: a kingdom with Damascus as its capital.
- 88: The two kings start to quarrel.
- 87: Demetrius is captured by the Parthian king Mithradates III; as king, he is succeeded by his younger brother Antiochus XII Dionysus.
- Antiochus and his brother Philip are hostile to each other.
- In 84, Antiochus is defeated and killed by the Nabataean Arabs, who take Damascus.
- Flavius Josephus, Jewish War, 1.99ff
- Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, 13.387ff
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