The Greeks in Bactria and India c10.s4.27

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Eucratides by force of arms, for Eucratides’ recall from India was so urgent that it would seem that his treaty with Menander can only have been one hastily arranged on the basis of each keeping what he had. What clinches the matter is that all Antimachus’ four monograms are said to occur frequently on Menander’s coins:¹ he was therefore Menander’s sub-king, and his money, as was not unusual with sub-kings, was struck for him in his suzerain’s mints. His two characteristic types are the Gorgon-head, used by Demetrius and Menander,² and a new type, ‘King on prancing horse’;³ this latter was imitated by several later kings,⁴ who might therefore perhaps be his descendants. He was only a younger son of a younger son, who can have brought Menander little but his sword; juridically he had no claim to rule India which could compare with that of Menander’s wife Agathocleia, and it is likely enough that the suggestion that he was content to serve Menander as the one remaining bulwark against Eucratides⁵ is correct. Like Apollodotus, he never put his own portrait on his coins: whether it is conceivable that we have his portrait from Seleuceia is discussed in Appendix 8.