The Greeks in Bactria and India c8.14

c8.14

¹ This theme runs through Professor Herzfeld’s *Archaeological History of Iran* 1934; see *e.g.* p. 50, ‘only the most superficial features of foreign’ (*i.e.* Greek) ‘art are taken over; the essential ones are missed’; and p. 75, ‘it neither really understands nor assimilates the spirit of Hellenism’.