DOI Artikel:
Kalita, Stanisław: The coins of Diodotus of Bactria and the problem of dating the Bactrian secession
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21230#0051
TOM III/IV
KRAKÓW 1999
NOTAE NUMISMATICAE
ZAPISKI MMIZMATYCZNE
STANISŁAW KALITA
Institute of History, Jagiellonian University
Cracow
THE COINS OF DIODOTUS OF BACTRIA
AND THE PROBLEM
OF DATING THE BACTRIAN SECESSION
In Book 41, Chapter 4 of the Epitoma Historiarum Philipicarum
Pompei Trogi by Marcus Junianus Justinus (a Roman writer who made
a summary of the historical work by the Pompeius Trogus mentioned in
the title), we find the following passage:
Post mortem Alexandri Magni cum inter successores eius Orientis regna
dwiderentur, nullo Macedonum dignante Parthorum imperium, Staganori,
externo sodo, traduntur. Postea deductis Macedonibus in bellum civile cum
ceteris superioribus Asiae populis Eumenem secuti sunt, quo victo ad
Antigonum transiere. Post hunc a Nicatore Seleuco ac mox ab Antiocho et
successoribus eius possessi, a cuius pronepote Seleuco primum defecere primo
Punico bello, L. Manlio Vulsone M Atilio Reguło consulibus. Huius
defectionis impunitatem illis duorum fratrum regum, Seleuci et Antiochi,
discordia dedit, qui dum invicem eripere sibi regnum volunt, perseąui
defectores omiserunt. Eodem tempore etiam Diodotus, mille urbium
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KRAKÓW 1999
NOTAE NUMISMATICAE
ZAPISKI MMIZMATYCZNE
STANISŁAW KALITA
Institute of History, Jagiellonian University
Cracow
THE COINS OF DIODOTUS OF BACTRIA
AND THE PROBLEM
OF DATING THE BACTRIAN SECESSION
In Book 41, Chapter 4 of the Epitoma Historiarum Philipicarum
Pompei Trogi by Marcus Junianus Justinus (a Roman writer who made
a summary of the historical work by the Pompeius Trogus mentioned in
the title), we find the following passage:
Post mortem Alexandri Magni cum inter successores eius Orientis regna
dwiderentur, nullo Macedonum dignante Parthorum imperium, Staganori,
externo sodo, traduntur. Postea deductis Macedonibus in bellum civile cum
ceteris superioribus Asiae populis Eumenem secuti sunt, quo victo ad
Antigonum transiere. Post hunc a Nicatore Seleuco ac mox ab Antiocho et
successoribus eius possessi, a cuius pronepote Seleuco primum defecere primo
Punico bello, L. Manlio Vulsone M Atilio Reguło consulibus. Huius
defectionis impunitatem illis duorum fratrum regum, Seleuci et Antiochi,
discordia dedit, qui dum invicem eripere sibi regnum volunt, perseąui
defectores omiserunt. Eodem tempore etiam Diodotus, mille urbium
51