Sophytes

Sophytes (died 294 BC) is a figure whose origin is subject to much debate. There is an Indian king "Sophytes", described as ruling along the Indus during the campaigns of Alexander the Great, in the Bibliotheca of Diodorus Siculus. Curtius also records a dramatic interview between the tall and handsome Saubhuti and Alexander in which Saubhuti offers war He has been mentioned as both a Greek prince and a mercenary captain in the late fourth century BCE and as an Indian King of Paropamisdae in Bactria. His coins have been found in Southern Asia; however, exactly where he may have operated or reigned remains unresolved. Some scholars posit his region of influence as the modern Pakistani Punjab while others note that it was further west in Bactria (Northern Afghanistan). He was born in today's Kabul in the end of 326 BC and perhaps a son of Alexander the Great by Dkhti, daughter of Subhuti (d. aft. 327 BC), Indian Prince of Paropamisos (Kabul), as well as the father of Greek General Apollodotus (b. c. 295 BC), in turn the father of King Euthydemus I of Bactria.