Antiochis (daughter of Antiochus the Great)

Antiochis was a princess from the Hellenistic Seleucid dynasty and the first half of the 2nd century BC Queen of Cappadocia.

Life

Antiochis was a daughter of Antiochus III Seleukidenkönigs. , The Great and Laodice. Some time before the war, her father against the Romans, she married the Cappadocian king Ariarathes IV Eusebes, which is why his father at the battle of Magnesia (190 BC) supported that Antiochus III. still lost. She bore her husband a son, who was known before his accession to the throne Mithridates and succeeded his father as Ariarathes V. Eusebes Philopator, and two daughters, including Stratonike, who married the Pergamon King Eumenes II II and then his brother and successor, Attalus.

According to a dubious report by the Sicilian historian Diodorus ancient Greek was Antiochis, an allegedly unscrupulous woman who was barren at the beginning of their marriage and had therefore foisted two sons named Ariarathes and Orophernes. They have brought to the world and then later her husband reveals the truth mentioned your three children. Then they have the older of the changeling sons with sufficient funds provided to Rome and the younger sent to Ionia, to allow her legitimate son of an undisturbed succession.