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Zoilos II Soter (Greek: ; epithet means "the Saviour") was an Indo-Greek king who ruled in eastern Punjab. Bopearachchi dates his reign to c. 55–35 BCE, a date approximately supported by R. C. Senior. ==Rule== He seems to have been one of the rulers who succeeded the last important Indo-Greek king Apollodotus II the Great in the eastern parts of his former kingdom. All these kings use the same symbol as Apollodotus II, the fighting Pallas Athene introduced by Menander I, and usually also the same epithet ''Soter'' (Saviour). It is therefore possible that they belonged to the same dynasty, and Zoilus II could also have been related to the earlier king Zoilus I, but the lack of written sources make all such conjections uncertain. He may have been the Bactrian ally of Marcus Antonius (Mark Antony) and Cleopatra VII referred to by Virgil in his vision of the Battle of Actium in ''The Aeneid,'' Bk.VIII, 688: Hinc ope barbarica variisque Antonius armis, victor ab Aurorae populis et litore rubro, Aegyptum viresque Orientis et ultima secum Bactra vehit. (Antony, with barbarous wealth and strange weapons, conqueror of eastern peoples and the Indian shores, bringing Egypt, and the might of the Orient, with him, and furthest Bactria).〔Francis Henry Skrine and Edward Denison Ross, ''The Heart of Asia: A History of Russian Turkestan and the Central Asian Khanates from the Earliest Times,'' by London, Methuen, 1899, p.19; E. Drouin, “Bactriane”, ''La Grande Encyclopédie: Inventaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Lettres et des Arts,'' Paris, Lamirault, 1885-1902, Tome 4, pp.1115-1122, nb 1118.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Zoilos II」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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