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 Diodotus I - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
When Seleucus II in 239 BC attempted to subjugate the rebels in the east he seems to have united with him against the Parthians (Justin xli.
Soon afterwards he died and was succeeded by his son Diodotus II, who concluded a peace with the Parthians (Justin l.c.).
Diodotus II was killed by another usurper, Euthydemus (Polyb.
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 239 BC - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Diodotus of Bactria defeats a combined army of Parthians and troops led by Seleucus II Callinicus.
He dies shortly after and is succeeded by his son Diodotus II.
Diodotus I of the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom (approximate date).
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 DIODOTUS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
DIODOTUS, the satrap of Bactria-Sogdiana, who revolted against his Seleucid soverign Antiochus II (q.v.) and proclaimed himself king, thus laying the foundation of the Graeco-Bactrian kingdom.
In the first group, while keeping his sovereign's name, Diodotus introduced his own portrait instead of the portrait of Antiochus II, and replaced the most common Seleucid reverse type, Apollo seated on the Omphalus, by a full-length figure of a thundering Zeus with an eagle at his feet.
It is evident that Diodotus, by minting them, took the final step to declare openly his independence.
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 Detail Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
In 147, Demetrius II, the eldest son of the defeated Demetrius I, led an army of mercenaries from Crete into Syria.
Diodotus, the governor of Syria, gained possession of Cleopatra Thea's son, drove Demetrius from Antioch and proclaimed little Antiochus ruler.
However, Diodotus had the boy murdered a year or two later since Antiochus was a threat to his power.
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 Poroi, 4, 2, Lane
Diodotus spoke after Cleon, the foremost hawk, “the most violent man at Athens, and at that time by far the most powerful with the People” (3.36.6ff), had excoriated people for even suggesting that they might reconsider the death sentence.
Diodotus began with the sobering claim that “Plain good advice has thus come to be no less suspected than bad; and the advocate of the most monstrous measures is not more obliged to use deceit to gain the people than the best counselor is to be in order to be believed” (3.43.2).
Advising Athenians on their interests, Diodotus reminded them that the Mytilenians (especially the ones who did not begin the rebellion against Athens but joined in trying to save their city once Athens placed it under siege) were essentially like the Athenians.
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 Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 1019 (v. 1)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The remote and secluded position of his territories, and the revolt of the Parthians under Arsaces, almost immediately afterwards, appear to have prevented any attempt on the part of the Syrian monarch to reduce him again to subjection.
At a later period, when Seleucus Callinicus under­took his expedition against Parthia, he appears to have entered into alliance with Diodotus, and may perhaps have confirmed him in the possession of his sovereignty, to secure his co-operation against Tiridates.
With regard to the date of the revolt of Dio­dotus, it appears from Strabo and Justin to have preceded that of Arsaces in Parthia, and may there­fore be referred with much probability to the latter part of the reign of Antiochus II.
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 Greco-Bactrian Kingdom
The Greco-Bactrian Kingdom was founded by the Seleucid military governor of Bactria Diodotus around 250 BC when he wrestled independence for his territory from the Seleucid Empire.
Diodotus was succeeded by his son Diodotus II.
Euthydemus II (190-185 BC) Son and sub-king of Demetrius I. Coins (http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/greece/baktria/kings/euthydemos_II/t.html)
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 bactria - NumisWiki, The Collaborative Numismatics Project
They probably belong to the time of the invasion of India by Seleucus, for after his treaty of peace with Sandracottus and his cession to him of the Panjâb, andc., Seleucid coins would not be struck in India.
From this time down to the revolt of Diodotus from Antiochus II and the establishment by him of the independent kingdom of Bactria, it is difficult to distinguish among the Seleucid coins those which were issued in the far eastern provinces from the rest, as they are all of the Attic standard.
Diodotus appears to have revolted from Antiochus II, or to have been acknowledged as king by him about B.C. See supra, p.
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 Ancient Bactrian Coins Diodotus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
But by BCE it had revolted under a leader named Diodotus who Today surviving Bactrian coins provide some of the most realistic portraiture from the ancient Greek world.
Demetrius II Ptolemaic coins Pergamum coins Bactrian coins Thrace Bunbury Unpublished Coins of the Kings of Syria in Num.
During the reign of Antiochus II Bactria, under Diodotus, revolted...
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 The Beginnings of the Arsacids - (The Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies - CAIS)©
Then, under Seleucus II (246-223), when Diodotus, the satrap of Bactria seceded from the Seleucid Empire and proclaimed himself Basileus, Tiridates with his tribe, under pressure of Diodotus' power, left Bactria, invaded Parthia and then Hyrcania, and established a new domination destined to become "the rival of the Romans."[5]
[15] Diodotus' defection and the fraternal war between Seleucus II and Antiochus Hierax crumbled the Seleucid authority in the East and so Tiridates was able to override Parthia and then Hyrcania[16] and plant his domination there.
On the other hand, it is unlikely that under Antiochus II, a rebel should be able to establish his sovereignty in a town which was a station of the royal road linking Syria with the Far East.
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 DIODOTUS - Online Information article about DIODOTUS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Soon afterwards he died and was succeeded by his son Diodotus II., who concluded a See also:
Ptolemy II., the eastern provinces and their See also:
Diodotus Soter appears also on coins struck in his memory by the later Graeco-Bactrian See also:
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 Demetrius II Nicator
Demetrius II Nicator ('victor'): name of a Seleucid king, ruled from 145 to 138 and from 129 to 125.
Diodotus, still an adherent of Alexander Balas, proclaims Alexander's son Antiochus VI Dionysus king; the boy, who is two years old, is recognized in Antioch; Demetrius' life is saved by soldiers from Judah; he flees to Seleucia
Demetrius II, who is still held in captivity, is allowed to return to his old kingdom, which has by now been reduced to Syria and Cilicia
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 Bactria.htm
Around 250 BCE Diodotus or his son Diodotus II, the satrap of Bactria, rebelled and set up an independent kingdom.
Euthydemus I deposed Diodotus II and became King of Bactria c.
Eukratides I (c.177 - 135 BCE) overthrew Demetrios II and Antimachus I (sons of Demetrios I) with the help of of Selucids in 170 BCE and became ruler of the western portion of Bactria (Gandara, Kabul and Kandahar).
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 List of ancient Greeks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Arsinoe II of Egypt - Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt
Hiero II of Syracuse - tyrant of Syracuse
Ptolemy II of Egypt - Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt
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 Britain.tv Wikipedia - Ashoka
Regarding the "Country of the Yona", Ashoka further specifies in his Edict No 13 (quoted hereafter), that most Hellenistic rulers of the period (Antiochus II Theos, Ptolemy II Philadelphus, Antigonus Gonatas, Magas of Cyrene and Alexander II of Epirus) received the teaching of the "Dharma".
He was a contemporary of both Antiochus I Soter and his successor Antiochus II Theos of the Seleucid dynasty as well as Diodotus I and his son Diodotus II of the Greco-Bactrian kingdom.
Ptolemy II Philadelphus, the ruler of Ptolemaic Egypt and contemporary of Ashoka, is recorded by Pliny the Elder as having sent an ambassador named Dionysius to the Mauryan court at Pataliputra in India:
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 The Alekseev Manuscript - Chapter VIII - Iron Age in Eurasia
Due to the many difficulties presented to the Seleucid kings including the attacks by Ptolemy II, Diodotus, a satrap of Bactria, declares independence c 255 BC and Diodotus conquers Sogdiana and establishes the Graeco-Bactrian kingdom.
Diodotus and his successors are able to contend with the attacks by the Seleucids.
Finally, when Antiochus III is defeated by the Romans in 190 BC, the Bactrian king Euthydemus and his son Demetrius cross the Hindu Kush and begin the conquest of eastern Iran and the Indus valley.
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 Parthia in the News - 2004
In later Sassanid times, particularly during the reigns of Khosrow-Anushirvan (531-579 AD) and Khosrow II (590-628), extensive temple facilities were erected on the northern side of the lake to accommodate the large numbers of pilgrims coming to the shrine from beyond the borders of Persia.
Following the defeat of Khosrow II's army by the Romans in 624 AD, the temple was destroyed and its importance as a pilgrimage destination rapidly declined.
An Iranian historian Vesta Sarkhosh speculated the statue was built in the reign of Orod ii some 38-57 B.C. A replica of the statue, a sample of the advanced stage of the metal works industry in ancient Iran, was displayed in the 7,000 years of Iranian arts exhibition in Europe.
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 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Agathocles issued a series of "pedigree" dynastic coins, probably with the intent to advertise his lineage and legitimize his rule, linking him to Alexander the Great, a Seleucid king Antiochus (probably Antiochus II), the founder of the Greco-Bactrian kingdom Diodotus and his son Diodotus II, Euthydemus,Pantaleon, and Demetrius.
Finally, the association with Alexander was a standard move for usurpers in the hellenistic world, such as the pseudo-Seleucids Alexander Balas and the Syrian general Diodotus Tryphon.
Also, Agathocles and Pantaleon, along with their contemporary Euthydemus II, are unique in the ancient world, in that they were the first in the world to issue copper-nickel (75/25 ratio) coins
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 Nisean History
Cambyses II was in Babylon when the news reached him that his father was dead.
And upon the death of Diodotus I, he formed an alliance with his successor, Diodotus II of Bactria.
Seleucus II refused to accept the changes that were occurring within his empire and in 228 BC, he marched east to reclaim lost land.
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 Sketches in the History of Western Philosophy
The absorption of the kingdom by the Ostrogoths, who dominated the Ukraine at the time in the fourth century, is a portent for the trouble that the Empire proper was going to have with the Goths in the fifth century.
This was condemned by the Third Ecumenical Council, at Ephesus, called by the Emperor Theodosius II in 431.
A council called by Theodosius II in 449 actually recognized Monophysitism as orthodox, despite the opposition of the Pope and the Patriarch of Constantinople.
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 Baktria, Kings, Diodotos I, ancient coins index with thumbnails - WildWinds.com
Diodotus I, Tetradrachm, Satrap of Baktro-Sogdiana, Portrait & name of Antiochus I of Syria.
Baktria, Diodotos I AV Stater, in the name of Antiochos II of Syria.
Bactrian Kingdom, Diodotos II, 256-230 BC, as satrap under Antiochus II, AR Tetradrachm.
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 Afghanistan History
250-243 BC Diodotus I and the Greco-Bactrian Uprising: An uprising by a local Greco-Bactrian Governor, Diodotus I (Theodota I), leads to the independence of the Amu Darya Plain.
243-221 BC Diodotus II (Theodota II): Continues the consolidation of the Bactrian Empire over Northern Afghanistan.
The Empire is reduces to independent local areas ruled either by Tochari tribal leaders or remnant Greco-Bactrian officials depending on who maintained the strongest local power.
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 Greco-Bactrian Kingdom:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Greco-Bactrian Kingdom was founded around 250 BCE when the Seleucid military governor of Bactria, Sogdiana and Margiana, named Diodotus (Theodotos), wrestled independence for his territory from the Seleucid ruler Antiochus II, who was embroiled in a war against Ptolemaic Egypt:
He then successfully resisted a two-year siege in the fortified city of Bactra, before Antiochus finally decided to recognize the new ruler, and to offer one of his daughters to Euthydemus's son Demetrius around 206 BCE
Classical accounts also relate that Euthydemus negotiated peace with Antiochus III by suggesting that he deserved credit for overthrowing the original rebel Diodotus, and that he was protecting Central Asia from nomadic invasions thanks to his defensive efforts:
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 Central Asia - South   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The eastern branch of the Scythians, who constantly harassed the eastern provinces of the Persian empires and invaded Afghanistan and Northern India in the first century BCE.
Hunza was a Northwest Frontier State, one of the tribal entities in the northern highlands of Pakistan which have been more-or-less autonomous for ages, due to inaccessibility and the intransigence of the indigenes.
The capital and largest city in Afghanistan, a place of great strategic import, Kabul is also one of the oldest cities in the region - there are references to the place in the Hindu Rig Veda scriptures (c.
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 Excavation Works to Resume in Arsaces’ Major Capital - CAIS Archaeological & Cultural Daily News of Iran©
Arsaces I had to deal with attempts by Antiochus III to recapture lost Seleucid territories, but evidently succeeded in consolidating control of Parthia, Hyrcania, Herat and Astauene (and possibly Nisaia).
Early in his reign of 36 years he invaded and conquered Hyrcania and then, on the death of the elder King Diodotus in Bactria, formed and alliance with Diodotus II.
About 228 B.C., Seleucus II Calinicus (247-226 B.C.) gathered an army in Babylon with which he marched east to reclaim the lost satrapies.
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