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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 281 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DIODOTUS , Seleucid See also:

satrap of See also:Bactria, who rebelled against See also:Antiochus II. (about 2S5) and became the founder of the Graeco-Bactrian See also:kingdom (See also:Trogus, Prol. 41; See also:Justin x1i. 4, 5, where he is wrongly called Theodotus; See also:Strabo xi. 515). His See also:power seems to have extended over the neighbouring provinces. See also:Arsaces, the chieftain of the nomadic (Dahan) tribe of the Parni, fled before him into See also:Parthia and here became the founder of the See also:Parthian kingdom (Strabo l.c.). When Seleucus II. in 239 attempted to subjugate the rebels in the See also:east he seems to have See also:united with him against the Parthians (Justin xli. 4, 9). Soon afterwards he died and was succeeded by his son Diodotus II., who concluded a See also:peace with the Parthians (Justin l.c.). Diodotus II. was killed by another usurper, See also:Euthydemus (Polyb. xi. 34, 2).

Of Diodotus I. we possess See also:

gold and See also:silver coins, which imitate the coins of Antiochus II.; on these he sometimes calls himself See also:Soter, " the saviour." As the power of the Seleucids was weak and continually attacked by See also:Ptolemy II., the eastern provinces and their See also:Greek cities were exposed to the invasion of the nomadic barbarians and threatened with destruction (Polyb. xi. 34, 5) ; thus the erection of an See also:independent kingdom may have been a See also:necessity and indeed an See also:advantage to the Greeks, and this epithet well deserved. Diodotus Soter appears also on coins struck in his memory by the later Graeco-Bactrian See also:kings See also:Agathocles and See also:Antimachus. Cf. A. v. Sallet, See also:Die Nachfolger See also:Alexanders d. Gr. in Baktrien and Indien; See also:Percy See also:Gardner, Catal. of the Coins of the Greek and Scythian Kings of Bactria and See also:India (Brit. See also:Mus.) ; see also BACTRIA. (ED.

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