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b'Synopsis: While the Ptolemies intrigue in Coele Syria, Antiochus VIII Grypus and his half-brother Antiochus IX Cyzicenus struggle for seventeen years to win control of the north.\\xa0 After the rivals die in quick succession, the kingdom comes under control of Seleucus VI and Demetrius III, the allied sons of Grypus.\\n\\n\\n\\n\\u201cThen Grypus proceeded to besiege Antioch, the city where Cyzicenus\\u2019 wife Cleopatra (IV) was to be found, and when it was captured Tryphaena, the wife of Grypus, ordered that the highest priority be given to hunting down her sister\\u2026to ensure that she escape one of the miseries of captivity.\\xa0 For Tryphaena believed that it was from feelings of jealousy towards herself that Cleopatra had entered this kingdom rather than any other, and that she had declared herself her sister\\u2019s enemy by marrying her sister\\u2019s foe.\\u201d \\u2013 Justin, Epitome of the Philippic History of Pompeius Trogus, Book 39\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'