Antiochus VI Dionysus (first son with Cleopatra Thea)
Dynasty
Seleucid
Father
Antiochus IV Epiphanes (unconfirmed)
Mother
Laodice IV (unconfirmed)
Alexander I Theopator Euergetes, surnamed Balas (Ancient Greek: Ἀλέξανδρος Βάλας, romanized: Alexandros Balas), was the ruler of the Seleucid Empire from 150 BC to August 145 BC.[1]
Picked from obscurity and supported by the neighboring Roman-allied Kingdom of Pergamon, Alexander landed in Phoenicia in 152 BC and started a civil war against Seleucid King Demetrius I Soter. Backed by mercenaries and factions of the Seleucid Empire unhappy with the existing government, he defeated Demetrius and took the crown in 150 BC. He married the princess Cleopatra Thea to seal an alliance with the neighboring Ptolemaic kingdom. His reign saw the steady retreat of the Seleucid Empire's eastern border, with important eastern satrapies such as Media being lost to the nascent Parthian Empire. In 147 BC, Demetrius II Nicator, the young son of Demetrius I, began a campaign to overthrow Balas, and civil war resumed. Alexander's ally, Ptolemaic king Ptolemy VI Philometor, moved troops into Coele-Syria to support Alexander, but then switched sides and threw his support behind Demetrius II. At the Battle of the Oenoparus River in Syria, he was defeated by Ptolemy VI and he died shortly afterward.
Alexander I Theopator Euergetes, surnamed Balas (Ancient Greek: Ἀλέξανδρος Βάλας, romanized: Alexandros Balas), was the ruler of the Seleucid Empire from...
chose to promote Antiochus IV's son AlexanderBalas against him and supported him with troops and officers. When Alexander triumphed over Demetrius in 150...
Demetrius' father Demetrius I fought AlexanderBalas for control of the Seleucid throne. Somewhat surprisingly, Balas won, and Demetrius' father, mother...
against Balas. However, Jonathan promptly broke his temporary truce with Demetrius after AlexanderBalas offered an even better deal to them. Balas allied...
throne, the supposed son of Antiochus IV, and brother of Antiochus V, AlexanderBalas. Whether or not he was truly the son of Antiochus IV Epiphanes is uncertain...
the Seleucids, backed a rival claimant to the Seleucid throne: AlexanderBalas. Balas claimed to be a lost child of Antiochus IV Epiphanes, Demetrius...
based on Corinth c. 250 BC Alexander (satrap) (died 220 BC), satrap of Persis under Seleucid king Antiochus III AlexanderBalas, ruler of the Seleucid kingdom...
Egypt were deteriorating. They supported rival claimant to the throne AlexanderBalas, who claimed to be the son of Antiochus IV Epiphanes and a first cousin...
148–142/1 BC), king of the Hellenistic Seleucid kingdom, was the son of AlexanderBalas and Cleopatra Thea, daughter of Ptolemy VI of Egypt. Antiochus VI did...
between them as their equal; Balas even clothed him with his own royal garment and otherwise accorded him high honour. Balas appointed Jonathan as strategos...
Babylonia and eastern Syria from Damascus, the remnants of Balas' supporters—first supporting Balas' son Antiochus VI, then the usurping general Diodotus Tryphon—held...
There is also some evidence on this: historian Nick Sekunda notes that AlexanderBalas successfully challenged King Demetrius for leadership of the Seleucid...
Demetrius I after AlexanderBalas offered an even better deal. Jonathan was granted the title of both High Priest and strategos by Alexander, essentially acknowledging...
orders the gathering of an army. The pretender to the Seleucid throne, AlexanderBalas, who claims to be the son of the late Antiochus IV, defeats the Seleucid...
period. It was founded by Seleucus I Nicator, a general and successor of Alexander the Great, after the division of the Macedonian Empire as a result of...
person who lived in the second century BC and fought as a soldier with AlexanderBalas. His life is known from the works of Diodorus Siculus. Diophantus was...
Seleucid Empire. Initially an official under King Alexander I Balas, he led a revolt against Alexander's successor Demetrius II Nicator in 144 BC. He rapidly...
Alexander III of Macedon (Ancient Greek: Ἀλέξανδρος, romanized: Alexandros; 20/21 July 356 BC – 10/11 June 323 BC), most commonly known as Alexander the...
Demetrius replaced by an opportunist in Balas. Ptolemy VI's daughter Cleopatra Thea married AlexanderBalas as a gesture of friendship. However, this...
Battle of Antioch, Ptolemy VI Philometor defeats the Seleucid usurper AlexanderBalas, but dies in the battle. Ptolemy VII becomes king of Egypt briefly...
kings Antiochus V Eupator and AlexanderBalas. In 152 BC, Laodice became one of the supporters for her brother AlexanderBalas, who revolted and overthrew...
the point where they support a rival claimant to the Syrian throne, AlexanderBalas, who claims to be the son of the former Seleucid king Antiochus IV...
Antiochus IV Epiphanes (c. 215–164 BC), ruler of the Seleucid Empire AlexanderBalas, ruler of the Seleucid Empire from 150 BC to 145 BC, was called Epiphanes...
the point where they support a rival claimant to the Syrian throne, AlexanderBalas, who claims to be the son of the former Seleucid king Antiochus IV...
Soter and an usurper, AlexanderBalas. Both turned to Jonathan, attempting to win him over with concessions, and AlexanderBalas even elevated him to the...
Cappadocian civil war. By the summer of 152 BC, a usurper by the name of AlexanderBalas, who claimed to be the son of Antiochus IV, was gaining support and...
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