The Greeks in Bactria and India c15.31

c15.31

The fictitious Seleucid pedigree played its part in the West no less than in the East. Apart from Megalopolis and Commagene, another Alexander-descent has come to light in the Greek city of Teos,⁹ and others may follow; for an Alexander-descent implies attachment in some form or other to the Seleucid pedigree, and doubtless there were people in the Greek world who traced their lineage, real or reputed, from a concubine of this or that Seleucid king; compare the one-time descents from Charles II in England. Whether there was once a version in the West which made Apama a daughter of Barsine, not of Roxane, cannot at present be said; but certainly in the second century B.C. the legend that Apama was Alexander's daughter was well known from Megalopolis to Merv.¹