Laodice III

Laodice ( † after 177 BC) was a daughter of Mithridates II of Pontus and Laodice, the daughter of Antiochus II in 222 BC She married her cousin, the Seleucid king Antiochus III. in Seleucia on the Zeugma, where she had been brought from Nauarchen Diognetos. After the grand wedding ceremony, she traveled with her husband to Antioch on the Orontes and here was appointed by him to the Queen, before he went to war against the usurper Molon.

She became the mother of three sons ( Antiochus, who had already died 193 BC as the eldest son, Seleucus IV, Antiochus IV ) and four or five daughters (including Cleopatra I. and Antiochis ). In the Seleucid Laodice cult was 205 BC included under the title of " Queen Sister " by her husband; so that their worship was connected by eponymous " Erzpriesterinnen " in all the satrapies. An inscription of Iasos called Laodice as the wife of " the great king Antiochus " and mother of several children. The Delier built the royal couple by 194 BC a statue. Antiochus III. married in 191 BC for the second time; what position Laodike then took is not known. For the year 177/176, a " Erzpriesterin " demonstrated that oversaw the cult of Laodice and her daughter Laodice in Seleucia on Eulaeus ( Susa ).