[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) › c34.4 # The Greeks in Bactria and India c34.4 The Greeks in Bactria and India c34.4 - **Language:** English ### [c34.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c34.4) P. 417, n. 7. H. Bengston, \*Philol.\* XCII, 1937, p. 129, asserts that \*Ἰων\* is derived from \*ἸάFων\*, but his references do not bear this out. The difficulties have been investigated by P. Kretschmer, \*Glotta\* I, 1909, p. 14 n. 4, who suggested that they were parallel forms, and by A. Cuny, \*Rev. E.G.\* XXXIV, 1921, p. 155, who suggested that \*ἸάFονες\* was not Indo-European and was adopted in Asia by the Greeks. But no writer seems to have noticed the two similar parallel forms in India. - [Previous: c34.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c34.3) - [Next: c35.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c35.2) - [Up: c34](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c34) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c34.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c34.4) · Pramāṇa