The Greeks in Bactria and India c10.s7.187
The Greeks in Bactria and India c10.s7.187
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¹ Reich p. 740 thought that a woman actor in India, being against Indian canons (in serious drama), must have been borrowed from Greece. But the archimima was equally against the canons of classical Greece in serious drama, so the argument fails. The mime in fact was a thing apart and a law to itself. ² *Op. cit.* p. 739. ³ Keith *op. cit.* p. 68. ⁴ Oldfather, *op. cit.* pp. 66, 67, 70, shows that in Egypt Euripides was much the more popular of the two. ⁵ *Life of Apollonius* II, 32 (*the Heracleidae*); see p. 354 n. 3.