The Greeks in Bactria and India c29.31

c29.31

The conclusion, then, is that when Kujula Kadphises, a descendant of the Kushan *yavuga* Miaos who had married a relative of Hermaeus, invaded the Paropamisadae, he proclaimed to the Greeks that he came, not as a foreign conqueror, but as their lawful ruler by hereditary relationship to their last king Hermaeus; the coins here considered are the dry bones of that propaganda. It shows, incidentally, that in the first half of the first century A.D. there were still enough Greeks, or what passed as Greeks, in the Paropamisadae to be worth conciliating.