Editing Andriscus (section)

==Claiming the throne==
===In Syria===
He first staked his claim in Syria. [[Livy]] and [[Cassius Dio]] write that he simply went from Pergamon to Syria and directly staked his claim before the [[Seleucid]] monarch, [[Demetrius I Soter]].<ref>Livy, ''Periochae'' 49.27</ref><ref>Dio, XXI.71</ref> [[Diodorus Siculus]] offers a different account. According to him, Andriscus was already a mercenary in Demetrius' army. Due to his resemblance to the former Macedonian king, his comrades started jokingly calling him "son of Perseus"; these jokes soon began becoming serious suspicions, and at one point, Andriscus himself decided to seize the opportunity and claimed that he was indeed the son of Perseus.<ref>Diodorus, Book 32</ref> Niese attempts to reconcile both accounts, suggesting that he might have travelled to Syria and then enlisted as a mercenary before staking his claim.{{sfn|Niese|1903|p=332}}

He appealed to the king to help him win back his "ancestral" throne, and found great popular support among the Seleucid populace, to the extent that there were riots in the capital, [[Antioch]]. Large segments of the Seleucid population were of Macedonian descent, nurturing strong anti-Roman sentiment since the Roman conquest of Macedon in the [[Third Macedonian War]]; they were eager to help the claimant.{{sfn|Hoover|2000|p=108}}{{refn|group=Note|Inviting Greek and Macedonian settlers to the Seleucid realm, and promoting the Hellenization of the realm, was a common policy of the Seleucids; this was the reason for large populations of Macedonian and Greek descent.<ref name="Steven C. Hause, William S. Maltby 2004 76">{{Cite book |last1=Steven C. Hause |url=https://archive.org/details/westerncivilizat0000haus |title=Western civilization: a history of European society |last2=William S. Maltby |publisher=Thomson Wadsworth |year=2004 |isbn=978-0-534-62164-3 |page=[https://archive.org/details/westerncivilizat0000haus/page/76 76] |quote=The Greco-Macedonian Elite. The Seleucids respected the cultural and religious sensibilities of their subjects but preferred to rely on Greek or Macedonian soldiers and administrators for the day-to-day business of governing. The Greek population of the cities, reinforced until the second century BC by immigration from Greece, formed a dominant, although not especially cohesive, elite. |url-access=registration}}</ref><ref name="Victor, Royce M. 2010 55">{{Cite book |last=Victor, Royce M. |title=Colonial education and class formation in early Judaism: a postcolonial reading |publisher=Continuum International Publishing Group |year=2010 |isbn=978-0-567-24719-3 |page=55 |quote=Like other Hellenistic kings, the Seleucids ruled with the help of their "friends" and a Greco-Macedonian elite class separate from the native populations whom they governed.}}</ref>}} They proceeded to such an extent that there were even calls for deposing the king if he did not help the pretender. Unmoved, or perhaps frightened, Demetrius had Andriscus arrested and sent to Rome.{{sfn|Hoover|2000|p=108}}{{sfn|Niese|1903|p=332}}{{refn|group=Note|Supporting Andriscus was difficult because Rome was already suspicious of Demetrius; he had been a Seleucid hostage at Rome who had escaped and then become king without the Roman Senate's approval for the first year of his reign. Also, his wife, [[Laodice V]], had been the wife of Rome's former enemy, [[Perseus of Macedon]]; she had married Demetrius after Perseus' defeat and death.{{sfn|Hoover|2000|p=107}}}}

===In Rome===
In Rome, he was brought before the Senate, where Dio writes that he stood "in general contempt" due to what was perceived to be his ordinary nature and transparently false claim.<ref>Dio, XXI.71</ref> The Romans believed his claim to be fake, because the real Philip had died at [[Alba Fucens]] two years after his father Perseus. Considering him harmless, they simply exiled him to an Italian city, but he managed to escape; fleeing Italy, he went to the Greek world, to the city of [[Miletus]].{{sfn|Niese|1903|p=332}}

===Gaining support===
In [[Miletus]], he tried to advance his claims further, attracting significant attention and sympathy. When the leaders of Miletus learned about this, they arrested him and sought advice from visiting Roman envoys on what to do with him; the envoys were contemptuous of the pretender and told the Miletans he was safe to release.<ref>Diodorus, 32.15</ref> He continued his travels through [[Ionia]], meeting former acquaintances of Perseus and gaining an audience with Kallipa, a former concubine of Perseus who was now married to Athenaios, brother of the Pergamene king [[Attalus II Philadelphus]].{{sfn|Kuzmin|2013|pp=281-282, 284}} Being a Macedonian by birth, and due to her former connections to the Antigonids, she accepted his claim and agreed to help him, giving him money and slaves, and probably recommending that he travel to [[Thrace]], where he would find a following.{{sfn|Kuzmin|2013|pp=283-284}}{{refn|group=Note|It has been suggested that being the wife of the king's brother, Kallipa could not have acted secretly, and that Athenaios and Attalus knew of her intrigues with Andriscus and deliberately allowed them to proceed. However, this is contradicted by the fact that a restored Macedon would be a threat to the Pergamenes, and that the Pergamenes would loyally assist Rome in the subsequent war against Andriscus.{{sfn|Kuzmin|2013|pp=285-286}}}}

He was also received favourably in Byzantium.{{sfn|Niese|1903|p=332}} He finally arrived in [[Thrace]], where he met [[Teres III]], who had married the granddaughter of Perseus and was the son of [[Cotys IV]], who had once been an ally of Perseus. Teres and the other Thracian chieftains, especially a certain Barsabas, received him enthusiastically; he held a coronation ceremony at Teres' court, was given a few hundred Thracian troops, and set off on his campaign.{{sfn|Niese|1903|pp=332-333}}<ref>Diodorus, Book 32</ref>