[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Greeks in Bactria and India](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938) › c10.s3.80 # The Greeks in Bactria and India c10.s3.80 The Greeks in Bactria and India c10.s3.80 - **Language:** English ### [c10.s3.80](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c10.s3.80) It cannot be guessed what Antiochus' plan would have been had Egypt not intervened, but the plan subsequently followed can be deduced from events: Eucratides was to clean up the East and Antiochus the West, and at the end they were to take Parthia between two fires; the result could not have been in doubt. Though neither of them lived to carry it out, the plan for a combined attack on Parthia seems to follow from the fact that an attempt was made to put it into operation a generation later, when Demetrius II of Syria attacked Parthia from the west and his Bactrian allies (presumably Eucratides' son Heliocles) co-operated from the east;¹ but by that time Parthia had become strong enough to defeat the coalition. - [Previous: c10.s3.79](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c10.s3.79) - [Next: c10.s3.81](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c10.s3.81) - [Up: c10.s3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c10.s3) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c10.s3.80](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c10.s3.80) · Pramāṇa