The Greeks in Bactria and India c9.s1.58

c9.s1.58

It has been mentioned that the Ionian cities settled whole new cities for the Seleucids, and that many military colonies named themselves after their mother-towns. The two processes in combination went further, for the new cities themselves sometimes sent out colonies of the same name; there were foundations upon foundations. A clear case is Artemita on the Arabian side of the Persian Gulf,¹ which must have been settled from the well-known Artemita in the Apolloniatis; another is ‘Calliope’ in India, which must have had *some* settlers at any rate from ‘Calliope’ in Parthia (p. 246); Carrhae on the Persian Gulf² was presumably settled from Carrhae in Mesopotamia. Unmistakeable, though not Seleucid, is Ouranopolis in Pamphylia;³ it was a colony from Ouranopolis in Chalcidice, the city founded by Cassander’s brother Alexarchus (p. 210), for two people could never have hit upon that extraordinary name independently. One may suppose that these places were military colonies, anyhow at the start; perhaps the Seleucids supervised the process. How far it went cannot be said; but the fact that some new cities themselves were able to send out colonies is obviously important (p. 70).