Silver tetradrachm of Heliocles (145–130 BC) Obv: Bust of Heliocles Rev: Zeus standing, with thunderbolt and sceptre. Greek legend: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΔΙΚΑΙΟΥ ΗΛΙΟΚΛΕΟΥΣ Basileos Dikaiou Heliokleous, "Of King Heliocles the Just".Silver tetradrachm of Heliocles (145–130 BC) Obv: Bust of Heliocles helmetted and in uniform. Rev: Zeus standing, with thunderbolt and sceptre. Greek legend: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΔΙΚΑΙΟΥ ΗΛΙΟΚΛΕΟΥΣ Basileos Dikaiou Heliokleous, "Of King Heliocles the Just".Yuezhi copy of a coin of king Heliocles. The Yuezhi are thought to have invaded his territory and taken over his coinage as a consequence.
Heliocles I (Ancient Greek: Ἡλιοκλῆς, romanized: Helioklēs meaning "glory of Helios"; reigned 145–120 BC) was a Greco-Bactrian king, brother and successor of Eucratides the Great, and considered (along with his co-ruler and son/nephew Heliocles II) the last Greek king to reign over the Bactrian country. His reign was a troubled one; according to Roman historian Justin, Eucratides was murdered crossing the Hindu Kush by one of his sons, although this is highly disputed and Justin fails to name the perpetrator. Eucratides’ death led to instability, even civil war, which caused the Indian parts of the empire to be lost to Indo-Greek king Menander I and southern Bactria to be lost to the Yuezhi.
India, W. W. Tarn, Cambridge University Press. Coins of Heliocles More coins of Heliocles Catalogue of the Coins of HelioclesI and Scythian Imitations...
Eucratides II and HelioclesI (145–130 BC), who was the last Greek king to reign in Bactria. Once the Yuezhi tribes overpowered Heliocles, the Greco-Bactrians...
Dikaios, who seems to have succeeded Heliocles II in Gandhara (perhaps after his death from disease; HelioclesI looks emaciated on his later portraits)...
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Ptolemy I Soter (/ˈtɒləmi/; Greek: Πτολεμαῖος Σωτήρ, Ptolemaîos Sōtḗr "Ptolemy the Savior"; c. 367 BC – January 282 BC) was a Macedonian Greek general...
Dharmaraja "King of the Dharma"). This usage was adopted by Strato I, Zoilos I, Heliocles II, Theophilus, Peucolaus and Archebius. Altogether, the conversion...
the Diadochi and regained his throne in 297 BC with the support of Ptolemy I Soter. During what came to be known as the Pyrrhic War, Pyrrhus fought Rome...
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Antiochus I Soter (Greek: Ἀντίοχος Σωτήρ, Antíochos Sōtér; "Antiochus the Savior"; c. 324/3 – 2 June 261 BC) was a Macedonian king of the Seleucid Empire...
her honor. Cleopatra Selene is mentioned in the novels by Robert Graves, I, Claudius and Claudius the God. Cleopatra Selene is a significant character...
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Eucratides I Plato Eucratides II HelioclesI Indo-Greeks Demetrius I Antimachus I Pantaleon Agathocles Apollodotus I Demetrius II Antimachus II Menander I Zoilos...
Euthydemus I (Greek: Εὐθύδημος, Euthýdēmos: from εὐθύς (“straight or genuine”) and δῆμος (“people”); c. 260 BC – 200/195 BC) was a Greco-Bactrian king...
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Just as the Yuezhi had copied the coins of the last Greco-Bactrian ruler Heliocles in Bactria, or the Indo-Scythians had copied the coins of the last western...
Diodotus I Soter (Greek: Διόδοτος Σωτήρ, Diódotos Sōtḗr; c. 300 BC – c. 235 BC) was the first Hellenistic king of Bactria. Diodotus was initially satrap...
strangers Additional names and epithets for Zeus are also: Contents A B C D E G H I K L M N O P S T X Z Abrettenus (Ἀβρεττηνός) or Abretanus: surname of Zeus...
member of the Ptolemaic dynasty, she was a descendant of its founder Ptolemy I Soter, a Macedonian Greek general and companion of Alexander the Great. After...
and adopted son, Eumenes I, succeeded him upon his death in 263 BC. He rebelled and defeated the Seleucid king Antiochus I Soter near the Lydian capital...
mother. When Alexander was ousted as joint king by his brother, Demetrius I took up Alexander's appeal for aid and ousted Antipater, killed Alexander...
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his own right. Soon after Eucratides' II death, the last Bactrian king HelioclesI was defeated by the Yuezhi tribes, who expelled the Greek kings from...
Strato I Dikaios (Greek: Στράτων Δίκαιος Strátо̄n Díkaios, “Strato the Just”) also known as Stratha in Sanskrit, was a Yavana King (reigned 125/120-110...
as a personification of this goddess/sitting Heracles The later king Heliocles II overstruck some of Agathoclea's coins. Greco-Buddhism Indo-Scythians...
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