[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) › c11.9 # The Greeks in Bactria and India c11.9 The Greeks in Bactria and India c11.9 - **Language:** English ### [c11.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c11.9) Perhaps I may be permitted here one moment of pure fantasy. There is in existence, I believe somewhere in the United States, a slab of stone brought from Swat on which a Greek artist has carved two figures. I have not sought to trace it, as it is not historical evidence; but the figures have appeared in a very remarkable work of fiction,¹ and one who saw the slab before it was sold has assured me that the description of them there given is entirely accurate. One of the figures is a Greek Victory, and facing her is a strange composite creature with the head of a Greek Zeus and the body, repulsively rendered, of a native; and it pleases me to imagine that some Greek nationalist was here giving his views of the Indian empire of Demetrius and Menander: ‘\*This\* then is the result of our victories—this mongrel monstrosity.’ It is but a fancy; and his - [Previous: c11.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c11.8) - [Next: c11.10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c11.10) - [Up: c11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c11) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c11.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c11.9) · Pramāṇa