Career
She was proclaimed queen by Antiochus III at Antioch before he set out in his expedition against Molon. Laodice’s name does not appear in any sources. However her name is recorded in a number of inscriptions alongside her husband’s in the later years of her husband’s reign at Sardis, Herakleia-by-Latmos (see Latmus), Iasos and Antioch.
Laodice III bore Antiochus III eight children who were: Antiochus, Seleucus IV Philopator, Ardys, an unnamed daughter who was engaged to Demetrius I of Bactria, Laodice IV, Cleopatra I Syra, Antiochis and Antiochus IV Epiphanes born as Mithridates.
After her death, Antiochus III married to Euboea of Chalcis, by whom he had no children.
