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Notae Numismaticae - Zapiski Numizmatyczne — 3/​4.1999

DOI article:
Kalita, Stanisław: The coins of Diodotus of Bactria and the problem of dating the Bactrian secession
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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21230#0051

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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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