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Menander is noted for having become a patron and convert to Greco-Buddhism and he is widely regarded as the greatest of the Indo-Greek kings. Menander might have initially been a king of Bactria.
Menander (flourished 160 bce?–135 bce?) was the greatest of the Indo-Greek kings and the one best known to Western and Indian classical authors. He is believed to have been a patron of the Buddhist religion and the subject of an important Buddhist work, the Milinda-panha (“The Questions of Milinda”).
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Menander I Soter, (The Saviour), known as Milinda in Indian sources, was one of the Indo-Greek rulers in northern India from c. 155 B.C.E. to 130 B.C.E. His territories covered the eastern dominions of the divided Greek empire of Bactria and extended to the modern Indian States of Punjab and Himachal Pradesh and the Jammu region.
Menander I Soter was a Greco-Bactrian and later Indo-Greek King who administered a large territory in the Northwestern regions of the Indian Subcontinent and Central Asia. Menander is noted for having become a patron and convert to Greco-Buddhism and he is widely regarded as the greatest of the Indo-Greek kings.
Menander I Soter (alt. Ménandros Sōtḗr; Menander the Saviour), known as Milinda in Indian sources, was a Greco-Bactrian and later Indo-Greek King (reigned c.165/155 [1] –130 BC) who administered a large territory in the Northwestern regions of the Indian Subcontinent from his capital at Sagala.
primary name:Menander I. other name:Milinda. Details. individual; ruler; royal/imperial; Indo-Greek; Male. Other dates. 155 BC-130 BC (approximate reign) Biography. King of the Indo-Greek dynasties who ruled parts of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Northern India. He is the only Indo-Greek king to be noted in the works of Western Historians, and was ...
Menander (born c. 342—died c. 292 bce) was an Athenian dramatist whom ancient critics considered the supreme poet of Greek New Comedy—i.e., the last flowering of Athenian stage comedy. During his life, his success was limited; although he wrote more than 100 plays, he won only eight victories at Athenian dramatic festivals.