[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) › c15.2 # The Greeks in Bactria and India c15.2 The Greeks in Bactria and India c15.2 - **Language:** English ### [c15.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.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 - [Previous: c14.31](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c14.31) - [Next: c15.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c15.3) - [Up: c15](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c15) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c15.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c15.2) · Pramāṇa