The Greeks in Bactria and India c9.s1.112

c9.s1.112

The interest of this non-Greek type of *polis* is that, judging by Anisa, it shows that Asiatics were attracted by Greek city-forms and used them on a considerable scale, and that the Greek language was a very powerful *official* instrument. There seems nothing to show that the Seleucids ever created or licensed such a *polis*, though they might sanction towns of old renown, like Tyre or Sardis, turning themselves into *poleis*, naturally with a citizen body which was primarily Asiatic;