The Greeks in Bactria and India c15.2

c15.2

In the first century B.C. there was in existence a fictitious pedigree of the Seleucid house which derived the descent of the dynasty from Alexander.¹ The fact is clearly shown in a series of inscriptions² set up by Antiochus I of Commagene below the representations of his ancestors, each inscription giving the name and patronymic of the corresponding figure; these inscriptions professedly give the respective pedigrees of his father, going back to Darius, and of his mother Laodice Thea Philadelphos, who was a Seleucid princess, a daughter of Antiochus VIII Grypus; and his mother's pedigree is the ordinary Seleucid pedigree³ but begins with Alexander.⁴