Antiochus X Eusebes Philopator was another contestant in the tangled-up family feuds among the last
Seleucids. Beginning his reign in
95 BC his first achievement was to defeat his double half-cousin/second cousin
Seleucus VI Epiphanes, thus avenging the recent death of his father
Antiochus IX Cyzicenus. The epithets he took tell much of his story: Eusebes (being a title of his father) and also Philopator (father-loving) both honoured his father. After that, he ruled
Antioch and its surroundings, fighting endlessly against the four brothers of Seleucus VI, the
Nabataeans[?] and the
Parthians. The date of his downfall are ambigious;
Josephus reckons he was killed around
90 BC fighting the Parthians - and his possession of
Antioch was certainly lost to
Philip I Philadelphus around then - whereas for instance
Appian[?] speaks of him being defeated when the
Armenian king
Tigranes invaded
Syria by
83 BC, but in that case his actions in the meantime remain unrevealed. A son of Antiochus X, by the name of
Antiochus XIII Asiaticus, was made client-king in Syria after the
Roman general Pompey had defeated Tigranes.