[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) › c19.2 # The Greeks in Bactria and India c19.2 The Greeks in Bactria and India c19.2 - **Language:** English ### [c19.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c19.2) 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. - [Previous: c18.21](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c18.21) - [Next: c19.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c19.3) - [Up: c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c19) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c19.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c19.2) · Pramāṇa