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Demetrius's queen Cleopatra Thea meanwhile is regent; …

Years: 139BCE - 139BCE

Demetrius's queen Cleopatra Thea meanwhile is regent; but the usurper Trypho has gained strength in the south and threatens to seize full power.

Antiochus, the twenty-year-old brother of Demetrius (and the son of Demetrius I) has spent his youth in the Greek islands.

The energetic prince now arrives in Syria, marries Cleopatra Thea, and takes the throne as Antiochus VII Euergetes, or Sidetes. (His nickname comes either from the city of Side, in Pamphylia, where he had possibly been brought up, or from the city of Sidon.)

A passage in the Bible (I Maccabees 14:1-14) suggests that he had first assured himself of the neutrality of possible opponents, such as Judah.

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