[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) › c13.14 # The Greeks in Bactria and India c13.14 The Greeks in Bactria and India c13.14 - **Language:** English ### [c13.14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c13.14) One reason alleged for the belief that the Bactrian and Indian monograms represent mint-cities must be noticed—that certain monograms appear over such long periods of time that they cannot be moneyers.³ There is nothing in this. None of the mint-cities possessed an overflowing population of Greeks, and no doubt the office of mint-master was often hereditary,⁴ as was the office of \*strategos\* at Doura.¹ Let me give an instance from a city which had a numerous Greek population, Athens. During a large part of the third and part of the second centuries B.C. the office of \*paidotribes\* at Athens was hereditary in the family of Hermodorus of Acharnae; the inscriptions show the name Hermodorus as \*paidotribes\* spread out over about a century, whether there were two or three men of the name, \*i.e.\* whether we are dealing with three or five generations.² Suppose that that family, instead of being hereditary \*paidotribai\* in Athens, had been hereditary mint-masters in Alexandria-Kapisa; we should get the Hermodorus monogram spread out over about a century, and we might get it over the whole century and a half of Greek rule in that city. - [Previous: c13.13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c13.13) - [Next: c13.15](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c13.15) - [Up: c13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c13) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c13.14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c13.14) · Pramāṇa