Diodotid -- Ancient History Encyclopedia

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250 BC

Former satrap Diodotos rebels against Seleucid king Antiochos I, creating the Greco-Bactrian kingdom.
c. 230 BC

Diodotos II is overthrown by Euthydemos. Beginning of the Euthydemid dynasty.

Diodotid Books

The Cambridge Ancient History, Volume 8: Rome and the Mediterranean to...

Anonymous

Cambridge University Press (23 February 1990)

Price: $252.00

Thundering Zeus: The Making of Hellenistic Bactria

Frank L. Holt

University of California Press (30 April 1999)

Price: $70.00

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The Diodotids were a Greco-Bactrian dynasty of kings, composed by the two rulers Diodotos I and his son Diodotos II. The dynasty lasted between c.250 BC and c.230 BC, which was very short but significant because Diodotos I was the first Greco-Bactrian king. The numismatic emblem of this dynasty is the Thundering Zeus.

Diodotos was first the Seleucid satrap of Bactria, but soon rebelled against the Seleucid ruler Antiochos II, taking advantage of the war between the Seleucid and Ptolemaic empires. He fought against the Seleucids and the Parni/Parthians, but his son allied with the latter.

The dynasty ended with the overthrow of Diodotos II by Euthydemos who founded his own Euthydemid dynasty.

Written by Antoine Simonin.

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