The Greeks in Bactria and India c12.90

c12.90

² Thackeray op. cit. p. xiii says that Ptolemy’s questions in 187, 193, 194, 196 are late and indicate a tottering dynasty. The case is precisely the opposite: Ptolemy asks how he may be invincible in war and a terror to his enemies, and (twice) how he may keep his possessions unimpaired, i.e. the conquests made from the Seleucids and Antigonids by his father and himself. The writer knew Ptolemy II pretty well. I do not know of any other question which has been used to support a late dating except 250 (see p. 427).