Person

Demetrius III Eucaerus

king of the Hellenistic Seleucid kingdo

b. 116 BCE – d. 88 BCE World The Great Crossroads

Demetrius III (died 88 BCE), called Eucaerus ("well-timed" possibly a misunderstanding of the derogative name Akairos, "the untimely one") and Philopator, is a ruler of the Seleucid kingdom, the son of Antiochus VIII Grypus and his wife Tryphaena.