The Greeks in Bactria and India c9.s1.113

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but, speaking generally, one associates the non-Greek type of *polis* with the non-Greek king. Those known in the East are only heard of in the Parthian period (though this may be due to the defects of our tradition); it is thought that some king of Cappadocia gave Anisa her constitution;¹ and Josephus describes the creation by Herod the tetrarch of a *polis*, Tiberias on the sea of Galilee, which had no Greeks in it at all.² The excavation of some *polis* of this non-Greek type in the Farther East, should circumstances ever permit, would probably throw much fresh light on the hellenisation (or otherwise) of the Asiatic; a good one to choose might be Isidore’s Nië in the Anauoi satrapy, for the Hellenistic city should lie beneath the great mediaeval ruin-field at Neh.³