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This category lists the Hellenistic kings of the Indo-Greek Kingdom in the northern and northwestern parts of Indian subcontinent. Their reign spans the period from 180 BCE to around 10 BCE . Subcategories
Several Hellenistic artifacts have been found, in particular coins of Indo-Greek kings, stone palettes representing Greek mythological scenes, and small statuettes. Some of them are purely Hellenistic, others indicate an evolution of the Greco-Bactrian styles found at Ai-Khanoum towards more indianized styles.
Name Reign Mithridates I Ksistes: 281 - 266 BCE Ariobarzanes: 266 - c. 250 BCE Mithridates II: c. 250 - c. 220 BCE Mithridates III: c. 220 - c. I85 BCE
Strato III was the last of the dynasty of Diodotus was the last of the line of Diodotus and independent Hellenistic king to rule at his death in 10 AD. [99] [100] After conquering the Indo-Greeks, the Kushan empire took over Greco-Buddhism, the Greek language, Greek script, Greek coinage and artistic styles. Greeks continued being an important ...
The early Athenian tradition, followed by the 3rd century BC Parian Chronicle, made Cecrops, a mythical half-man half-serpent, the first king of Athens. [5] The dates for the following kings were conjectured centuries later, by historians of the Hellenistic era who tried to backdate events by cross-referencing earlier sources such as the Parian Chronicle.
Some narrative history has survived for most of the Hellenistic world, at least of the kings and the wars; [82] this is lacking for India. The main Greco-Roman source on the Indo-Greeks is Justin , who wrote an anthology drawn from the Roman historian Pompeius Trogus , who in turn wrote, from Greek sources, at the time of Augustus Caesar . [ 83 ]
Hellenistic kings did not use regnal numbers, which is a modern practise; instead, they used epithets to distinguish themselves from similarly named monarchs. [ 27 ] [ 28 ] On his coins, Philip I used the epithets Philadelphus (sibling-loving) and Epiphanes (the glorious, or illustrious). [ 29 ]
This category lists the Hellenistic kings of the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom in Bactria, today's northern Afghanistan. Their reign spans the period from 250 BCE to 125 BCE . The Greco-Bactrian kingdom was succeeded in northwestern India by the Indo-Greek Kingdom .