Achaeus (general)
Achaeus ("Akhaios"; died 213 BC) was a general and later a separatist ruler of part of the Greek Seleucid kingdom.
He was the son of Andromachus, whose sister Laodice II married Seleucus Callinicus, the father of Antiochus III
the Great
He accompanied Seleucus Ceraunus, the son of Callinicus, in his expedition across mount Taurus against Attalus I, and after the assassination of Seleucus Ceraunus revenged his death; and though he might easily have assumed the royal power, he remained faithful to the family of Seleucus.
In 223 BC Antiochus III, the successor of Seleucus Ceraunus, appointed him to the command of all Asia Minor on the western side of Mount Taurus.
Achaeus recovered all the districts which Attalus had gained for the Seleucids once more; but being falsely accused by Hermeias, the minister to Antiochus, of intending to revolt, he did so in self-defence, assumed the title of king, and ruled over the whole of Asia on the western side of the Taurus.
As long as Antiochus was engaged in the war with Ptolemy, he would not march against Achaeus; but upon the conclusion of a treaty with Ptolemy, he crossed the Taurus, uniting his forces with Attalus, and in one campaign deprived Achaeus of his dominions and took Sardis (with the exception of the citadel).
After sustaining a siege of two years, the citadel at last fell into the hands of Antiochus in 213, through the treachery of Bolis (who had been employed by Sosibius, minister to Ptolemy).
Bolis pledged to deliver Achaeus to safety, but turned him over to Antiochus, who immediately put him to death.
Pharnaces I of Pontus
Pharnaces I( lived 2nd century BC), fifth king of Pontus, was of Persian and Greek ancestry.
He was the son of King Mithridates III of Pontus and his wife Laodice, whom he succeeded on the throne.
Pharnaces had two siblings: a brother called Mithridates IV of Pontus and a sister called Laodice who both succeeded Pharnaces.
He was born and raised in the Kingdom of Pontus.
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Mithridates V of Pontus
Mithridates V Euergetes
( Greek:" Μιθριδάτης ὁ ε ὐεργέτης", which means" Mithridates the benefactor"; fl. 2nd century BC, r. 150–120 BC); also known as" Mithridates V of Pontus Mithradates V of Pontus" and" Mithradates V Euergetes", was a Prince and seventh King of the wealthy Kingdom of Pontus.
Mithridates V was of Greek Macedonian and Persian ancestry.
He was the son of the King Pharnaces I of Pontus and Queen Nysa, while his sister was Nysa of Cappadocia.
His mother is believed to have died during childbirth, while giving birth to either him or his sister.
He was born and raised in the Kingdom of Pontus.
Mithridates V succeeded his paternal aunt Laodice and paternal uncle Mithridates IV of Pontus on the Pontian throne, but the circumstance of his accession is uncertain.
Mithridates V continued the alliance with the Roman Republic started by his predecessors.
He supported them with some ships and a small auxiliary force during the Third Punic War( 149 – 146 BC) and at a subsequent period rendered them useful assistance in the war against the King of Pergamon, Eumenes III( 131–129 BC).
For his services on this occasion, Mithridates V was rewarded by the Roman consul Manius Aquillius with the province of Phrygia.
However the acts of the Roman consul were rescinded by the Roman Senate on the grounds of bribery, but it appears that he maintained his possession of Phrygia until his death.
Mithridates V also increased the power of the Kingdom of Pontus by the marriage of his eldest child, his daughter Laodice of Cappadocia to King Ariarathes VI of Cappadocia.
The end of his reign can only be approximately determined based on statements concerning the accession of his son Mithridates VI, which is assigned to the year 120 BC, signaling the end of the reign of Mithridates V.
Mithridates V was assassinated in about 120 BC in Sinope, poisoned by unknown persons at a lavish banquet which he held.
Mithridates V, was a great benefactor to the Hellenic culture which shows on surviving coinage and honorific inscriptions stating his donations in Athens and Delos and held the Greek God Apollo in great veneration.
A bilingual inscription dedicated to him is displayed at the Capitoline Museums in Rome.
Mithridates V was buried in the royal tombs of his ancestors at Amasya.
Mithridates V married the Greek Seleucid Princess Laodice VI, who was the daughter of Antiochus IV Epiphanes and Laodice IV.
Mithridates V and Laodice VI were related, thus he was connected to the Seleucid dynasty.
Laodice bore Mithridates V seven children: Laodice of Cappadocia, Mithridates VI of Pontus, Mithridates Chrestus, Laodice, Nysa( sometimes spelt as Nyssa), Roxana and Statira.
Roxana and Statira were compelled to kill themselves with poison after the fall of the Kingdom of Pontus in 63 BC.
Nysa was taken prisoner by the Romans and made to march in the triumphs of two Roman generals.
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Laodice of Pontus
Laodice (in Greek Λαοδικη; lived in the 3rd century BC), was a princess of Pontus and was one of the daughters of Mithridates II of Pontus and Laodice.
Her sister was Laodice III, the first wife of Antiochus III the Great , and her brother was Mithridates III of Pontus.
She married her distant maternal cousin, the Seleucid general Achaeus.
When Achaeus fell into the power of Antiochus III (213 BC), Laodice was left in possession of the citadel of Sardis, in which she held out for a time, but she was quickly compelled by the dissensions among her own troops to surrender to Antiochus III.
Polybius incidentally mentions that she was brought up before her marriage at Selge, in Pisidia (modern Turkey), under the care of Logbasis, a citizen of that place.
Mithridates III of Pontus
Mithridates III was the fourth King of Pontus, son of Mithridates II of Pontus and Laodice.
Mithridates had two sisters: Laodice III, the first wife of the Seleucid King Antiochus III the Great, and Laodice of Pontus.
He may have ruled in an uncertain period between 220 BC and 183 BC.
Nothing is known of him since the years just cited, because the kingdom of Pontus disappears from history.
His same existence is contested by certain historians, even if it is necessary to account for Appian's indication of Mithridates VI of Pontus as the eighth king of the dynasty and the sixth of the name.
Mithridates married an obscure Seleucid princess called Laodice.
By this wife, he had three children: Mithridates IV of Pontus, Pharnaces I of Pontus and Laodice.
Mithridates IV of Pontus
Mithridates IV of Pontus, sometimes known by his full name Mithridates Philopator Philadelphus,(" Mithridates the father- loving, brother- loving"; died) was a prince and sixth ruler of the Kingdom of Pontus.
Laodice of Cappadocia
Berenice or Laodice of Cappadocia, also known as Laodice(" Laodíkē"; flourished from the mid-120s BC to the 90s BC) was a princess from the Kingdom of Pontus and a queen of the Kingdom of Cappadocia.
Pharnaces II of Pontus
Pharnaces II of Pontus, also known as Pharnaces II( about 97 – 47 BC) was the king of the Bosporan Kingdom until his death.
He was a monarch of Persian and Greek Macedonian ancestry.
He was the youngest child born to King Mithridates VI of Pontus from his first wife, his sister Queen Laodice.
He was born and raised in the Kingdom of Pontus and was the namesake of his late double great grandfather Pharnaces I of Pontus.
Although ancient historians referred to him as Pharnaces of Pontus, he did not actually rule the Kingdom of Pontus.
After his father was defeated by the Romans in the Third Mithridatic War( 73 – 63 BC) and died in 63 BC, the Romans annexed Pontus, merged it with the former Kingdom of Bithynia and formed the Roman Province of Bithynia and Pontus.

Question: Who is the father-in-law of Laodice Of Pontus?
Answer: Andromachus