The Greeks in Bactria and India c15.28

c15.28

⁶ Sir A. Stein, Innermost Asia ii p. 886 n. 2, made the attractive suggestion that Roxane was the same word as Roshan (which would make Roshan Oxyartes' fief), and then withdrew it on the ground that classical literature knows other Roxanes. But, so far as I know, other occurrences of the name are all much later than Alexander and therefore quite immaterial, being merely taken from his queen's name.