Philip II Philoromaeus
Philip II Philoromaeus or
Barypos (heavy-foot) was son of the Seleucid king
Philip I Philadelphus. Philip II himself briefly reigned parts of Syria in the 60's B.C., as a client-king under
Pompey. He competed with his second cousin
Antiochus XIII Asiaticus of the favours of the great Roman general, but Pompey would have none of them and had Antiochus murdered. Philip survived him only for a few months: in 63 B.C. the Syrian governor Gabinius killed him on Pompey's behalf. Philip himself was indeed an insignificant pawn, but with him ended eleven generations of Seleucid kings, by far the mightiest rulers of the hellenistic world.