Silver coin of a king named Demetrius
Obv: Diademed and draped bust right. Ends of the diadem straight.
Rev: Athena facing, holding spear in right hand, resting left on her shield. Greek legend BASILEOS DIMITRIOU "King Demetrius".

Silver coin of a king named Demetrius
Obv: Bust of king with kausia helmet. Greek legend BASILEOS ANIKITOU DIMITRIOU (Invincible king Demetrius).
Rev: Zeus with scepter and thunderbolt. Kharoshthi legend: MAHARAJASA APARAJITASA DIMETRIA (Invincible king Demetrius).

Demetrius II was probably a relative of the Bactrian king Demetrius and ruled the Indian dominions of the Greco-Bactrian empire for a short time. Athena from the east pediment of the Afea temple in Aegina After a sculpture of Athena at the Louvre. ... Coin of Demetrios III. Bopearachchi. ... Coin of Demetrios III. Bopearachchi. ... Statue of Zeus The Greek sculptor Phidias created the 12-m (40-ft) tall Statue of Zeus in about 435 bc. ... The Kharoṣṭhī script, also known as the Gāndhārī script, is an ancient alphabetic script used by the Gandhara culture of historic northwest India to write the Gandhari and Sanskrit languages (the Gandhara kingdom was located along the present-day border between Afghanistan and Pakistan between the Indus River and the... Silver coin depicting the Greco-Bactrian king Demetrius (r. ...

History records keep only one reference to this second Demetrius; Roman historian Justin names a "D, king of the Indians", who beleaguered the warlike Bactrian king Eucratides the Great with an army of 60 000 men against the latters garrisson of 300, but still - according to the probably exaggerated account - eventually was defeated. This episode is referred to as occuring at the end of the reign of Eucratides, hence dating the death of Demetrius II around 150 BC. King Eucratides (171-145 BC) Obv: Bust of Eucratides. ... King Eucratides (171-145 BC) Obv: Bust of Eucratides. ... Centuries: 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC - 1st century BC Decades: 200s BC 190s BC 180s BC 170s BC 160s BC - 150s BC - 140s BC 130s BC 120s BC 110s BC 100s BC Years: 155 BC 154 BC 153 BC 152 BC 151 BC - 150 BC - 149 BC 148 BC...

Views are divided as for how to interpret the various coinage series bearing the name Demetrius. The upper coin shown was struck either by Demetrius I or II, whereas the nether has been said to belong to either of them or even a later king Demetrius III. This author notes the likeness of the nether portrait to kings Apollodotus I and Antimachus I and hence associates that coin with Demetrius II, who was a close successor of these kings and very likely belonged to the same dynasty, the house of Euthydemus I. Silver coin of Antimachus I (171-160 BC). ... Coin depicting the Greco-Bactrian king Euthydemus (230-200 B.C.) Euthydemus was allegedly a native of Magnesia and possible Satrap of Sogdiana, who overturned the dynasty of Diodotus of Bactria and became a Greco-Bactrian king in about 230 BC according to Polybius. ...

Maximum extent of Indo-Greek territory circa 175 BCE. The Indo-Greeks (or sometimes Greco-Indians) designate a series of Greek kings, who invaded and controlled parts of northwest and northern India from 180 BCE to around 10 BCE. They are the continuation of the Greco-Bactrian dynasty of Greek... The Paropamisadae is an ancient area of the Hindu-Kush, in the Eastern part of Afghanistan. ... Arachosia is the ancient name of an area that corresponds to the southern part of today s Afghanistan, around the city of Kandahar. ... Buddhas First Sermon at Sarnath, Kushan Period, ca. ... Punjab, 1903 Punjab Province, 1909 The Punjab (also Panjab) is a region straddling the border between India and Pakistan. ... (Redirected from 155 BCE) Centuries: 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC - 1st century BC Decades: 200s BC 190s BC 180s BC 170s BC 160s BC - 150s BC - 140s BC 130s BC 120s BC 110s BC 100s BC Years: 160 BC 159 BC 158 BC 157 BC 156 BC - 155 BC... (Redirected from 150 BCE) Centuries: 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC - 1st century BC Decades: 200s BC 190s BC 180s BC 170s BC 160s BC - 150s BC - 140s BC 130s BC 120s BC 110s BC 100s BC Years: 155 BC 154 BC 153 BC 152 BC 151 BC - 150 BC... Menander I ( also known as Milinda in Sanskrit, Pali), was one of the Greek kings of the Indo-Greek Kingdom in northern India from 160 to 135 BC. A renowned Indo-Greek king His territories covered the eastern dominions of the divided Greek empire of Bactria(from the areas of...

See also

• Indo-Greek Kingdom
• Seleucid Empire
• Greco-Buddhism
• Indo-Scythians
• Indo-Parthian Kingdom
• Kushan Empire

Maximum extent of Indo-Greek territory circa 175 BCE. The Indo-Greeks (or sometimes Greco-Indians) designate a series of Greek kings, who invaded and controlled parts of northwest and northern India from 180 BCE to around 10 CE. They are the continuation of the Greco-Bactrian dynasty of Greek... The Seleucid Empire was one of several political states founded after the death of Alexander the Great, whose generals squabbled over the division of Alexanders empire. ... Greco-Buddhism, sometimes spelled Græco-Buddhism, is the cultural syncretism between the culture of Classical Greece and Buddhism, which developed over a period of close to 800 years in Central Asia in the area corresponding to modern-day Afghanistan and Pakistan, between the 4th century BCE and the 5th century... Coin of the Indo-Scythian King of Kings Azes II, riding on horseback (c. ... Coin of Gondophares (20-50 CE), first and greatest king of the Indo-Parthian Kingdom. ... Boundary of the Kushan empire, c. ...

References

• "The Greeks in Bactria and India", W.W. Tarn, Cambridge University Press.