[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) › c12.106 # The Greeks in Bactria and India c12.106 The Greeks in Bactria and India c12.106 - **Language:** English ### [c12.106](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c12.106) ³ We shall meet many \*aporiai\*, commonplace ‘hard questions’ or (colloquially) ‘stumpers’ (see further p. 430 n. 6). They were not confined to Greeks, and were proper to kings; the Queen of Sheba tried her collection upon Solomon, \*I Kings\* x, 1, and see Plutarch’s \*Banquet of the Seven Sages\* (p. 436). Though Plutarch there is very contemptuous about them, he was not above discussing them himself; see the essays \*Mor.\* 955 E ‘Whether water or fire be the more useful’ and 959 B ‘Whether the creatures of the land are more intelligent than those of the water’. - [Previous: c12.105](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c12.105) - [Next: c12.107](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c12.107) - [Up: c12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c12) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c12.106](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c12.106) · Pramāṇa