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Of Diodotus I we possess gold and silver coins, which imitate the coins of Antiochus II; on these he sometimes calls himself Soter, "the saviour." As the power of the Seleucids was weak and continually attacked by Ptolemy II309- 246 BC), with Arsinoe II. Ptolemy II Philadelphus ( 309- 246 BC), was of a delicate constitution, no Macedonian warrior-chief of the old style. Bickermann Chronology of the Ancient World 2nd ed. 1980) gives the date of his death as January 29. His br, the eastern provinces and their Greek cities were exposed to the invasion of the nomadic barbarians and threatened with destruction ( Polyb.Polybius ca 203 BC 120 BC) was a Greek historian of the Mediterranean world, especially the rise of the Roman Republic, which he attributed to Roman fitness and the excellence of Roman civic and military institutions. He is most valued for his account of xi. 34, 5); thus the erection of an independent kingdom may have been a necessity and indeed an advantage to the Greeks, and this epithet well deserved. Diodotus Soter appears also on coins struck in his memory by the later Graeco-Bactrian kings AgathoclesAgathocles ( 361- 289 BC), tyrant of Syracuse, was born at Thermae Himeraeae (modern name Termini Imerese) in Sicily. The son of a potter who had removed to Syracuse, he learned his father's trade, but afterwards entered the army. In 333 he married the wi and AntimachusAntimachus of Colophon or Claros, Greek poet and grammarian, flourished about 400 BC. Scarcely anything is known of his life. His poetical efforts were not generally appreciated, although he received encouragement from his younger contemporary Plato ( Plu. Cf. AV Sallet, Die Nachfolger Alexanders d. Gr. in Baktrien und Indien; Percy GardnerPercy Gardner ( 1846- 1937), English classical archaeologist, was born in London, and was educated at the City of London school and Christ's College, Cambridge (fellow, 1872). He was Disney professor of archaeology at Cambridge from 1880 to 1887, and was, Catal. of the Coins of the Greek and Scythian Kings of Bactria and India ( Brit. Mus.).

This entry was originally from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.