Demetrius I of Syria

Demetrius I Soter in Wikipedia

Demetrius I (Greek: Δημήτριος Α`, born 185 B.C., reign 161-150 B.C.), surnamed Soter (Greek: Σωτήρ - "Savior"), was a ruler of the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire. Demetrius was sent to Rome as a hostage during the reign of his father Seleucus IV Philopator and his mother Laodice IV [1]. When his father was murdered by his finance minister Heliodorus ...

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Demetrius in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

A Syrian, called Soter (Σωτήρ), or "the Preserver," the son of Seleucus Philopator, and sent by his father, at the age of twenty-three, as a hostage to Rome. He was living there in this condition when his father died of poison, B.C. 176. His uncle Antiochus Epiphanes thereupon usurped the throne, and was succeeded by Antiochus Eupator. Demetrius, m...

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