[1] The epithet Philometor means "mother-loving" and in the Hellenistic world usually indicated that the mother acted as co-regent for the prince.
Cleopatra Thea remarried Demetrius and reunited him with his two sons, Seleucus V and Antiochus VIII.
[3] Phraates married Laodice,[4] and showed great favor to Seleucus, son of Antiochus VII.
[6] Instead, after his father was murdered outside of Tyre in 125, Seleucus V claimed the throne as the eldest son of Demetrius II; however, he was soon killed by his own mother.
[7] According to Appian, Cleopatra Thea had aided in the death of Demetrius and feared that Seleucus V might avenge his father.