Antiochus X Eusebes Philopator, ruler of the
Greek Seleucid kingdom, was a 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
Parthian Empire.