Strato I was an Indo-Greek king who ruled between c. 125-105 BCE in Northern India. He was the son of the great king Menander I and of the regent queen Agathokleia.
His territory extended from the mid-Punjab at the Jhelum River in the West to Mathura in the East, retaining the capital of his father in Sagala (modern Sialkot) in the northern Punjab, or possibly to the city of Bucephala (Plutarch, p. 48 n. 5). The area of Gandhara, west of river Jhelum, had been invaded by king Heliocles during the reign of his mother. According to archaelogical evidence, Strato I was apparently the last Greek king to hold Mathura, which seems to have been lost to Indian kingdoms around 100 BCE.
At the end of his reign, Strato I ruled together with his grandson Strato II, who then suceeded him. They are sometimes shown together on their coins.
Starto was suceeded by several Indo-Greek kings or sub-kings, until the line ended with Hippostratos around 55 BCE.
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References
- "The Greeks in Bactria and India" W.W. Tarn, Cambridge University Press
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