Nicholas Sims-Williams

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Nicholas Sims-Williams is a professor of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, where he is Research Professor of...
Clearchus Of Soli

Clearchus Of Soli

Clearchus of Soli (Greek, "Klearchos") was a Greek philosopher of the 4th-3rd century BCE, belonging to Aristotle's Peripatetic school. He was born...
James Tod

James Tod

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Lieutenant-Colonel James Tod (1782-1835), a British officer, historian of Rajasthan and numismatist, was born on March 20 1782. He went to India as...

Roxana

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Roxana (Bactrian: Roshanak; literally "little shiny star" or "light"), was a Bactrian noble and a wife of Alexander the Great. She was born earlier...
Euthydemus I

Euthydemus I

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Euthydemus I was allegedly a native of Magnesia and possible Satrap of Sogdiana, who overturned the dynasty of Diodotus of Bactria and became a...
Agathocles Of Bactria

Agathocles Of Bactria

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Agathocles "the Just" was an Indo-Greek king, who reigned between around 190 and 180 BCE. He might have been a son of Demetrius and one of his...
Demetrius II of India II of India

Demetrius II of India II of India

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Demetrius II was a Greco-Bactrian king, probably during the mid-2nd century BCE. His coins are few and often crude, and he seems to have been a...
Antiochus Ii Theos

Antiochus Ii Theos

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Antiochus II Theos (286-246 BC), was a king of the Hellenistic Seleucid Kingdom who reigned 261-246 BC). He succeeded his father Antiochus I Soter...
Alfred A. Foucher

Alfred A. Foucher

male, deceased (1952)
Alfred Foucher, a French scholar, identified the Buddha image as having Greek origins. He made his first trip to northeastern India in 1895. In...
Apollodorus Of Artemita

Apollodorus Of Artemita

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Apollodorus of Artemita was a Greek writer of the 1st century BCE. Apollodorus wrote a history of the Parthian Empire ("Parthika") in at least four...