[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) › c15.31 # The Greeks in Bactria and India c15.31 The Greeks in Bactria and India c15.31 - **Language:** English ### [c15.31](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.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 - [Previous: c15.30](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c15.30) - [Next: c15.32](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c15.32) - [Up: c15](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c15) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c15.31](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c15.31) · Pramāṇa