Euthydemus I

Coin depicting the Greco-Bactrian king Euthydemus (230-200 B.C.) [, 11.34).

The war lasted altogether three years. Following the departure of the Seleucid army, the Bactrian kingdom seems to have expanded. In the west, areas in north-eastern Iran may have been absorbed, possibly as far as into Parthia, whose ruler had been defeated by Antiochus the Great. These territories possibly are identical with the Bactrian satrapies of Tapuria and Traxiane.


His death has been estimated to about 200 BC.

There exist many coins of Euthydemus, portraying him as a young, middle-aged and old man. Some of them could be memorative issues by his son and a later king, Agathocles. The attribution of some of his coins (the younger portraits) to a second Euthydemus has been suggested but the evidence is very vague. The end of his reign can not be fixed, but he was succeeded by Demetrius, who went on to conquer northern India.

Preceded by:
Diodotus II		 Greco-Bactrian Ruler Succeeded by:
Demetrius I
(in India)
Eucratides I
(in Bactria)

Notes

  1. Polybius 10.49, Battle of the Arius
  2. Polybius 11.34 Siege of Bactra

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