The Greeks in Bactria and India c26.2

c26.2

This route from India to the West by the Oxus and the Caspian, sometimes called the northern route, is supposed to be given twice by Strabo¹ and once by Pliny;² there is nothing else, for Solinus 19, 4 is merely copied from Pliny. The correct explanation was given by Professor Kiessling in 1914,³ but it was given in a couple of sentences in the middle of a very long article on Hyrcania and has never been taken up or followed; and the whole subject has been such a mass of misunderstanding that it is worth setting out the formal proofs.