Neoptolemos Seleukid

Neoptolemos Seleukid (291 - 217 BC) was a claimant to the Seleukid throne. He murdered Herophilos Seleukid with poison at an banquet, after a first failed attempt during which he was severely wounded by Herophilos. He tried recruiting Agenor Seleukid, another claimant to the throne, to his plot, but Seleukos II intervened to drive them apart. He died before he could fulfill his ambition to rise to the Seleukid throne.

He commanded a small desert force in the Seleukid east, but quickly used his influences to grow his force.