Seleucus VII Kybiosaktes

Seleucus VII was a little prominent member of the Seleucid dynasty, he lived in the first half of the 1st century BC

Life

Seleucus VII was the son of Antiochus X. Seleukidenkönigs and his wife Cleopatra V as well as the younger brother of Antiochus XIII. The two brothers went to wish her mother 75 BC to Rome to demand the Senate confirmation of their claims to the Egyptian throne, the now the illegitimate Ptolemy XII. held. Although they had to win the senators themselves, donated a beautiful candelabra for the Capitoline temple, they were not received by the influential Romans, and finally had to go two years without having achieved anything leave.

Most adopted in the research that the younger brother of Antiochus XIII. is identical to that of Seleucus, who was 57 BC by the Alexandrians as a husband for their Queen Berenike IV ( a sister of the famous Cleopatra VII ) was determined. Because of its indelicate manners, he was mockingly called Kybiosaktes ( = " Pökelfischhändler "). After a few days, but let him Berenike IV - allegedly because of its primitiveness - strangle. He is probably identical with the institution designated by Porphyry as a suitor Berenice Seleucid prince, who succumbed to a serious illness. If one accepts this equation, then one can conclude that apparently different versions were circulated about his death; one could from friends, the others come from the enemies of the Egyptian queen.