page_title: Zoilos II
section_title: Rule
hierarchical_section_title: Zoilos II / Rule
caption_attribution_description: English: Coin of Zoilos II From "Coins of the Indo-Greeks", Whitehead, 1914 edition, Public Domain.
context_page_description: Zoilos II Soter 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. The name is often Latinized as Zoilus. It is possible that some of his coins were issued by a separate king, Zoilos III.
context_section_description: Zoilos 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).
caption: Elephant and tripod.
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