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Euthydemus I: Information from Answers.com (416 words) |
 | 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 BCE according to Polybius. |
| Little is known of his reign until 208 BCE when he was attacked by Antiochus III the Great, whom he tried in vain to resist on the shores of the river Arius, the modern Herirud. |
| Classical accounts also relate that Euthydemus negotiated peace with Antiochus III by suggesting that he deserved credit for overthrowing the original rebel Diodotus, and that he was protecting Central Asia from nomadic invasions thanks to his defensive efforts: |
| Euthydemus II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (118 words) |
| Silver coin of King Euthydemus II Euthydemus II was a son of Demetrius I of Bactria, and became king of Bactria in the 180s BCE, either after his father's death or as a sub-king to him. |
| The style and rare nickel alloys of his coins associates him closely in time with the king Agathocles but their precise relation remains uncertain. |
| Euthydemus is pictured as a boy on his coins and most likely died very young. |
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