The Greeks in Bactria and India c10.s1.32

c10.s1.32

The story of independent Bactria is, in its great period, essentially that of Euthydemus and his eldest son Demetrius. Euthydemus was a Greek from one of the Magnesias; it has been thought that Magnesia-under-Sipylos is the more likely because one of his coin-types resembles the type of certain cities in the neighbourhood of this Magnesia (not, be it noted, of Magnesia itself);⁹ but it is hard to believe that Polybius would call a man from the less important of the two cities a ‘Magnesian’