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Laodice V
(†150): Seleucid
princess, wife of the Macedonian
king Perseus.
Relatives:
Main deeds:
- 178:
Laodice V marries the Macedonian
king Perseus.
- The king of Pergamon, Eumenes
II Soter, becomes suspicious of the alliance between the Seleucid
and Macedonian
kings, and tells Rome; this one of the pretexts
of the Third Macedonian War.
- 168: Perseus defeated by the Romans (battle
of Pydna);
Laodice returns
to Syria
- 160: Birth of Demetrius
II Nicator, son of Demetrius
I and possibly Laodice
- Laodice's brother Demetrius
I Soter offers his sister
to king Ariarathes
V Philopator of Cappadocia,
who
declines.
- 158: During a civil war in Cappadocia, Demetrius,
still upset
because of Ariararathes' refusal, decides to support the rebel
Orophernes II
- Perhaps, Laodice marries Demetrius
- 150: When Demetrius I is killed, Laodice is killed too
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