The Greeks in Bactria and India c10.s1.167

c10.s1.167

There is no real evidence as to who was Demetrius’ sub-king in Seistan-Arachosia till we come to Pantaleon and Agathocles (Chap. IV), who show that these provinces were a unit of government; but as Demetrius cannot have employed his two younger sons before the two elder ones, whose dates are reasonably certain, there must have been an earlier sub-king. Since the only alternative to Apollodotus would be to invent an unknown prince who has left no trace in the coinage, that sub-king can only have been Apollodotus; his coins have been found there,³ but apparently Euthydemus’ copper was still struck as the copper currency of the new provinces. What happened to Aria (Herat) is uncertain, but it is more probable that it was joined to Antimachus’ kingdom than to Seistan-Arachosia; for when the colleague of Mithridates II, *i.e.* the Suren, drove the Saca invaders northward he recorded on his coins the conquest of Aria, Traxiane, and Merv,⁴ which may mean that he was clearing Antimachus’ one-time kingdom before dealing with Seistan-Arachosia. What is tolerably certain is that, when Eucratides arrived, Antimachus and Agathocles between them were ruling all the Iranian provinces westward of Bactria and India, however divided (see further Chap. V).