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The Greeks in Bactria and India c35.21

The Greeks in Bactria and India c35.21

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c35.21

Heliocles (king), governor in Bactria, 218; king, 223, 270, 279; conquests in India, 271; a second Heliocles unlikely, 273; coins, 271-2, 303-4, 440; later imitations, 212, 273, 303-4, 322 Heliocles (father of Eucratides), 196-7, 210 Heliodorus, 313, 380, 388, 391-2, 406 Helios, 92, 392; chariot of, 210-11; crown of, 188, 210 Hellanicus, 475 Helmand, 223, 320 Hemodi Mts, 110-11 Heracleia-Achaea, 13, 15 Heracleidae, the, 354 n., 384 n. Heracles, 68, 392; as coin-type, 78, 93, 261, 468, 503-4 Heracles (supposed son of Alexander), 449 Heraos. See Miaos Herat, 93, 199, 270 Hermaeus, 217, 330; chronology, 326, 331, 335, 337, 342-3, 497-8; history, 339-43; relations with Hippostratus, 337-8, 343; trade, 338; coinage, 333, 338, 343, 358, 503; types, 334, 337, 503; his end, 349-50; on coins of Kujula Kadphises, 338-9, 503-7 Hermeias, 423 Hermodorus of Acharnae, 439 Herodicus, 41, 252-3 Herodorus, 29, 39, 510 Hestiaeus, 28, 30 Hieronymus of Cardia, 46, 124, 233 Himalayas, 110 Hindu Kush, 96-7, 139, 158, 460-1 Hippalos, 369 Hipparchus, 43, 57 n., 232 Hippostratus, 318-19, 325-31, 497; date, 326; capital Bucephala, 326-7; victory on the Jhelum, 329, see Nicias; ‘Great King’, 329; his tetradrachms, 330-1, 343; relations with Hermaeus, see Hermaeus; coins and types, 325-7, 329, 356-7, 394, 404; his end, 349 Hirañasame, 160 Hiung-nu, 84-5, 110, 275-7, 279-80, 288, 516 Homer, 379, 382 Honan, 363 Hou-han-shu, 287 n., 338, 354 Hsüan Tsiang, 119, 137, 139, 234, 305, 471 n., 515 Hunza, 408 Huvishka, 352, 359, 397, 405 Hyctanis, river, 108 n., 483 n.