The Greeks in Bactria and India c19.2

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Did Antiochus IV attack the temple of Artemis-Nanaia in Elymais and suffer a repulse, or is the story a doublet of the story of Antiochus III attacking the temple of Bel in Elymais and losing his life?¹ The sources are Polybius xxxi, 9 (11); I Maccabees vi, 1-4; II Maccabees i, 13 sqq. and ix, 1 sqq.; Josephus, *Ant.* xii, 354-9; Appian, *Syr.* 66; Porphyry, frs. 53, 56 in *F. Gr. Hist.*; Eusebius i, 253 (Schöne); Jerome on Daniel x, pp. 718, 722. Of these, the two early sources, Polybius and the author of I Maccabees (whose story is independent of Polybius and is reproduced by Josephus), know nothing of any attack on a temple.