[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) › c26.5 # The Greeks in Bactria and India c26.5 The Greeks in Bactria and India c26.5 - **Language:** English ### [c26.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c26.5) ³ Kiessling, \*Hyrcania\* in PW, the best thing on Patrocles. Kiessling makes two points: (a) col. 465, Pliny no less than Eratosthenes depended on Patrocles; (b) col. 467, Patrocles said that goods \*could\* easily come down the Oxus to the Caspian and so to the Cyrus, and this was turned into a statement that they \*did\* come. That, in a nutshell, is the whole of the matter. - [Previous: c26.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c26.4) - [Next: c26.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c26.6) - [Up: c26](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c26) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c26.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c26.5) · Pramāṇa