The Greeks in Bactria and India c10.s3.49

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⁴ If Otto's deduction be right (*op. cit.* p. 55; it could be supported by Diod. xxx, 14) that Antiochus during his rule in Egypt sought to win over the native Egyptians, this would be a very important confirmation of his attitude; he would have been anything but the blind helleniser which he is represented to be in Jewish history. Rostovtzeff's view (*Seleucid Babylonia* pp. 6, 7) that Antiochus stood behind the hellenised Babylonian Kephalon when he built the great Anu-Antum temple at Uruk would have been in point here, but it was due to a misreading of the date, see p. 26 n. 1; it appears now that the king was Antiochus III.