Laodice V

Relatives:

• Father: Seleucus IV Philopator
• Mother: Laodice IV
• Husband: the Macedonian king Perseus.
• Children: Alexander, Philip, Andriscus (?), daughter

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