X-Nico

unusual facts about Demetrius I Soter


Claude Gros de Boze

Démétrius Soter, ou le Rétablissement de la famille royale sur le trône de Syrie (1746)



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Antiochus IV Epiphanes

Since Seleucus' legitimate heir, Demetrius I Soter, was still a hostage in Rome, Antiochus, with the help of King Eumenes II of Pergamum, seized the throne for himself, proclaiming himself co-regent for another son of Seleucus, an infant named Antiochus (whom he then murdered a few years later).