Seleucus VI Epiphanes

Seleucus VI Epiphanes in Wikipedia

Seleucus VI Epiphanes, ruler of the Hellenistic Seleucid kingdom, was the oldest son of Antiochus VIII Grypus. In 96 BC, Seleucus defeated his half-uncle Antiochus IX Cyzicenus in revenge for his father's death. However, the score was evened the next year (95 BC) by Antiochus X Eusebes, the son of Antiochus Cyzicenus, and Seleucus was forced to fle...

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Seleucus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

Surnamed Epiphănes, and also Nicātor (95-93), was the eldest of the five sons of Antiochus VIII. (Grypus). His uncle, who laid claim to the kingdom, was defeated and slain by him. Presently, however, Seleucus was himself expelled from Syria by Antiochus Eusebus. He retired to Cilicia, where he made himself master of the city of Mopsuestia, whose ci...

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