[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) › c19.18 # The Greeks in Bactria and India c19.18 The Greeks in Bactria and India c19.18 - **Language:** English ### [c19.18](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c19.18) I need hardly notice the two inconsistent stories in II Maccabees. In i, 13 Antiochus enters the temple of Nanaia peacefully to wed the goddess—that is taken from his marriage to Atargatis—and is murdered by the priests, which Polybius shows to be untrue. In chap. ix he attacks a temple in Persepolis, is beaten off, flies to Ecbatana, and dies ‘eaten of worms’ on his way to Judaea. Polybius shows the latter part to be untrue; but the story has this amount of interest—it knows that Antiochus was at Persepolis with his army, as he must have been on the road he was following (p. 214). - [Previous: c19.17](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c19.17) - [Next: c19.19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c19.19) - [Up: c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c19) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c19.18](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c19.18) · Pramāṇa