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Seleucus VI Epiphanes Nicator was a Hellenistic Seleucid monarch who reigned as the King of Syria between 96 and 94 BC. He was the son of Antiochus VIII and, most likely, his Egyptian wife Tryphaena. He lived at a period of civil war between his father and his uncle Antiochus IX, which ended in 96 BC when Antiochus VIII was assassinated. Antiochus IX then occupied the capital Antioch while Seleucus VI established his power-base in western Cilicia and himself prepared for war. In 95 BC, Antiochus IX marched against his nephew but lost and was killed. Seleucus VI became the master of the capital but had to share Syria with his brother Demetrius III, based in Damascus, and his cousin, Antiochus IX's son Antiochus X.

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