title: Thraso
text: # Thraso
  
  Thraso (Greek: Θράσων), latinized as Thrason, was an Indo-Greek king in Central and Western Punjab, unknown until the 1982 discovery of one of his coins by R. C. Senior in the Surana hoard. The coin is in a style similar to those of Menander I, has the same type of Athena, and shares one of Menander's mint marks. On the coin, the title of Thraso is Basileus Megas ("Great King"), a title which only Eucratides the Great had dared take before him and which is seemingly misplaced on the young boy Thraso, whose single preserved coin indicates a small and insignificant reign.
  
  Osmund Bopearachchi suggests a preliminary dating of 95–80 BC, but Senior himself concludes that Thraso was the son and heir of Menander (c. 155–130 BC), since his coin was not worn and was found in a hoard with only earlier coins.
  
  It seems as though the child was briefly raised to the throne in the turmoil following the death of Menander, by a general who thought the grandiloquent title might strengthen his case.
  
  vteGreco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek kings, territories and chronology :
  
  Based on Bopearachchi (1991) :
  
  Greco-Bactrian kings
  
  Indo-Greek kings
  
  Territories/ datesWest BactriaEast BactriaParopamisade ArachosiaGandharaWestern PunjabEastern PunjabMathura
  
  326-325 BCE
  
  Campaigns of Alexander the Great in India
  
  Nanda Empire
  
  312 BCE
  
  Creation of the Seleucid Empire
  
  Creation of the Maurya Empire
  
  305 BCE
  
  Seleucid Empire after Mauryan war
  
  Maurya Empire
  
  280 BCE
  
  Foundation of Ai-Khanoum
  
  255–239 BCE
  
  Independence of the Greco-Bactrian kingdom Diodotus I
  
  Emperor Ashoka (268-232)
  
  239–223 BCE
  
  Diodotus II
  
  230–200 BCE
  
  Euthydemus I
  
  200–190 BCE
  
  Demetrius I
  
  Sunga Empire
  
  190-185 BCE
  
  Euthydemus II
  
  190–180 BCE
  
  Agathocles
  
  Pantaleon
  
  185–170 BCE
  
  Antimachus I
  
  180–160 BCE
  
  Apollodotus I
  
  175–170 BCE
  
  Demetrius II
  
  160–155 BCE
  
  Antimachus II
  
  170–145 BCE
  
  Eucratides I
  
  155–130 BCE
  
  Yuezhi occupation, loss of Ai-Khanoum
  
  Eucratides II Plato Heliocles I
  
  Menander I
  
  130–120 BCE
  
  Yuezhi occupation
  
  Zoilus I
  
  Agathoclea
  
  Yavanarajya inscription
  
  120–110 BCE
  
  Lysias
  
  Strato I
  
  110–100 BCE
  
  Antialcidas
  
  Heliocles II
  
  100 BCE
  
  Polyxenus
  
  Demetrius III
  
  100–95 BCE
  
  Philoxenus
  
  95–90 BCE
  
  Diomedes
  
  Amyntas
  
  Epander
  
  90 BCE
  
  Theophilus
  
  Peucolaus
  
  Thraso
  
  90–85 BCE
  
  Nicias
  
  Menander II
  
  Artemidorus
  
  90–70 BCE
  
  Hermaeus
  
  Archebius
  
  Yuezhi occupation
  
  Maues (Indo-Scythian)
  
  75–70 BCE
  
  Vonones
  
  Telephus
  
  Apollodotus II
  
  65–55 BCE
  
  Spalirises
  
  Hippostratus
  
  Dionysius
  
  55–35 BCE
  
  Azes I (Indo-Scythians)
  
  Zoilus II
  
  55–35 BCE
  
  Vijayamitra/ Azilises
  
  Apollophanes
  
  25 BCE – 10 CE
  
  Gondophares
  
  Zeionises
  
  Kharahostes
  
  Strato II Strato III
  
  Gondophares (Indo-Parthian)
  
  Rajuvula (Indo-Scythian)
  
  Kujula Kadphises (Kushan Empire)
  
  Bhadayasa (Indo-Scythian)
  
  Sodasa (Indo-Scythian)
  
  ↑ O. Bopearachchi, "Monnaies gréco-bactriennes et indo-grecques, Catalogue raisonné", Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, 1991, p.453↑ Quintanilla, Sonya Rhie (2 April 2019). "History of Early Stone Sculpture at Mathura: Ca. 150 BCE - 100 CE". BRILL – via Google Books. :
  
  