Tetradrachm of Diodotus Platon. Obv: Diademed bust. Rev: Sun divinity Helios, riding a four-horse chariot. Greek legend: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΕΠΙΦΑΝΟΥΣ ΠΛΑΤΩΝΟΣ (BASILEOS EPIPHANOYS PLATONOS) "Of King manifest Platon". Coin marked MZ, which possibly is a dating which equals year 47 Yavana era = 138 BCECoin of Platon. Obv: Diademed bust. Rev: Sun divinity Helios, riding a chariot with four horses. Greek legend: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΕΠΙΦΑΝΟΥΣ ΠΛΑΤΩΝΟΣ (BASILEOS EPIPHANOYS PLATONOS) "Of King manifest Platon". Coin marked MT, which possibly is a dating which equals year 49 Yavana era = 136 BCETetradrachm. Obv: Diademed bust of Platon. Rev: Sun divinity Helios, riding a four-horse chariot. Greek legend: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΕΠΙΦΑΝΟΥΣ ΠΛΑΤΩΝΟΣ (BASILEOS EPIPHANOYS PLATONOS) "Of the King, Manifest, Platon". Coin marked MN, which possibly is a dating which equals year 48 Yavana era = 137 BCE
Plato (Greek: Πλάτων) was a Greco-Bactrian king who reigned for a short time in southern Bactria or the Paropamisade during the mid 2nd century BCE. The style of Plato's coins suggests that he was a relative — most likely a brother since Plato is a middle-aged man on his coins — of Eucratides the Great, whose rise to power is dated to around 170–165 BCE.
Some of Plato's coins have inscriptions which may possibly be interpreted as dates using the Indo-Greek era which started around 186 BCE. In that case Plato ruled around 140 BCE. This matches the dating given by numismatician Bopearachchi, who places Plato between 145–140 BCE, since his coins are not found in the ruins of Ai Khanoum, a Bactrian city which was destroyed during the reign of Eucratides.
Plato (Greek: Πλάτων) was a Greco-Bactrian king who reigned for a short time in southern Bactria or the Paropamisade during the mid 2nd century BCE. The...
mythology, as appearing for example on the coinage of Greco-Bactrian kings, such as Plato I. The iconography of Surya has varied over time. In some ancient arts...
Greco-Bactrians lost control of the provinces north of the Hindu Kush. Two other members of the dynasty were PlatoofBactria and probably Demetrius II,...
Commons has media related to Agathocles ofBactria. Indo-Greek Kingdom Greco-Buddhism Indo-Scythians The precise spans of rule for these kings are uncertain...
and later Indo-Greek king, who ruled areas from Bactria to ancient northwestern India. He was the son of Euthydemus I and succeeded him around 200 BC, after...
BCE) was the first Hellenistic king ofBactria. Diodotus was initially satrap ofBactria, but became independent of the Seleucid empire around 255 BCE...
Rice University and founder and former chair of the Department of Art Criticism and Writing at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. McEvilley was...
monotheistic religion in the world and also had an impact on Heraclitus, Plato, Pythagoras, and the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity...
ascended the throne ofBactria in 250-230 BC. In an inscription found in the Kuliab area of Tajikistan, northeastern Greco-Bactria, and dated to 200-195...
culture and Buddhism in Bactria and Northwest India. Scholars and historians are divided as to which event signals the end of the Hellenistic era. Proposals...
had united the areas ofBactria and parts of ancient India. The Yavana era progressively fell into disuse after the creation of the Kanishka era, the...
a son and sub-king of Demetrius I, but this view has now been abandoned. Osmund Bopearachchi has suggested that he ruled in Bactria and Arachosia c. 175–170...
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. From 130 BC...
and later satrap ofBactria and Sogdiana. Excerpt of Chapter I-22, Josephus, Contra Apionem: "For Clearchus, who was the scholar of Aristotle, and inferior...
detached, but the easternmost provinces had broken away, Bactria under the Seleucid Diodotus ofBactria, and Parthia under the rebel satrap Andragoras in 247–245...
satrap ofBactria Cassander, King of Macedon Chandragupta Maurya, Founder of the "Mauryan Dynasty" Craterus, Macedonian diadoch Darius III, king of the Achaemenid...
Εὐθύδημος Β΄) was a Greco-Bactrian king who ruled in Bactria in 185-180 BCE. Son of Demetrius I ofBactria, Euthydemus II became king in the 180s BCE, either...
daughter of the Sogdian nobleman Oxyartes ofBactria, out of love; and the Persian princesses Stateira and Parysatis, the former a daughter of Darius III...
kingdom. According to W. W. Tarn, Apollodotus I was one of the generals of Demetrius I ofBactria, the Greco-Bactrian king who invaded northwestern India...
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