The Greeks in Bactria and India c28.12

c28.12

The suggestion that the Era might be that of Demetrius’ conquest of India⁸ may be ruled out. Such an Era would have started somewhere about 180 B.C., which would make Maues king in Taxila somewhere about 102 B.C., and would leave no room for Ptolemy’s kingdom of ‘Indo-Scythia’. Few would defend so early a date;⁹ but the point, ‘Indo-Scythia’ apart, is that, looking at the trouble the Euthydemids took to prove to the world that they were Seleucids (Chap. v), Demetrius could not possibly have used any Era but the Seleucid, while Maues would not have used an Era of the conquered Greeks.