Agathocles I Dikaios Indo-Greek King

• Preferred Name: Agathocles I Dikaios Indo-Greek King
  
• Gender: M
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: succeeded Demetrius I in Paropamisadae
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Greco-Bactrian / Indo-Greek KingBET 190 BC AND 180 BC
  
• FSID: GS11-ZCZ
  
• Death: 165 BC
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Agathocles I Dikaios (Greek: Ἀγαθοκλῆς) was an ephemeral Greco-Bactrian/Indo-Greek king, who reigned between around 190 and 180 BC, likely of the dynasty of Diodotus I, due to his commemoration of Antiochos Nikator.
  There is a near-complete lack of written sources except an extensive coinage. This was probably due to the use of linen pages. His father may have been Diodotus II, and he would therefore have been illegitimate.
  
  Agathocles was first discovered by Johann Martin Honigberger in 1834, with hordes of coins being discovered at a rapid pace. No sooner had Desiré-Raoul Rochette held him to be the founder of the Bactrian dynasty than he was rejected by Christian Lassen, who felt that Agathocles was a contemporary of Demetrius and Eucratides I.
  Agathocles ruled c. 185 BC and was probably the immediate successor of Pantaleon; he was a contemporaneous relative (maybe, son) of Demetrius I, who was busy expanding towards India.
  He was challenged by Antimachus I. Depending on the results, which is not accurately ascertainable, he was either immediately ousted by Antimachus I or a few years later, by an usurper Eucratides I.

1. Agathokleia of Bactria, b. ABT 145 BC