The Greeks in Bactria and India c35.8

c35.8

Babylon, 17, 22 n., 57, 59, 60, 90, 115, 203, 386, 417; and Antiochus IV, 41, 184, 187-8, 191, 194-5, 252-3 Babylon (Egypt), 60 n. Babylon (Seleuceia), 15, 42 Babylon Thronia (nymph), 188, 253 Babylonia, 56-60, 68, 162, 211, 273, 434, 483 Babylonian(s), 29, 43, 56, 61, 115, 255 n.; calendar, 64-5 Babylonians (Seleuceians), 15, 22 Bacchae, the, 52 Bactra, 61, 71, 82, 89, 97, 136, 208, 231, 476; described, 114-16; bazaars, 112, 363-4; routes, 139-40; and Yueh-chi, 304-5; mint, 438; mint-masters, 202, 257, 439-40 Bactria. Histories of, 44-8; described, 102-3, 119; settlement, 118-21; products, 103-4; gold question, 105-8; trade, 87, 109-12, 363-4; art, 126-8, 211; artists, 75-8, 126, 301; monograms, 437-40; satrapies, 113, 240; cities, 118-19; military colonies, 119-20; native Bactrians, 120-5, 128, 259, 422; the 'thousand cities', 118, 120, 122; walled villages, 121-4, 299, 475-6; march state, 409, 413; shield of Iran, 143; history, 72, 82, 157, 273-4; and nomads, 80, 81, 116-17; and Euthydemus, chap. III passim; and Eucratides, 199; and Mithridates I, 222-3; nomad conquest, chap. VII passim; Chang-k'ien's account of, 298-9, see Ta-hia; noticed, 2, 55, 285, 377 Bactriane, 445 Bactrus river, 114, 119, 489 Badakshan, 85, 103, 114, 139, 280, 302-3, 506; Mirs of, 302, 449 Bāhlikas, 125, 136, 169, 171-2 Bahram Shah, 303