[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Greeks in Bactria and India](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938) › c9.s2.128 # The Greeks in Bactria and India c9.s2.128 The Greeks in Bactria and India c9.s2.128 - **Language:** English ### [c9.s2.128](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c9.s2.128) ¹ Alexander’s bematists, Baeton and Diognetus, wrote Σταθμοὶ τῆς ᾿Αλεξάνδρου πορείας (Athen. x, 442b), founded on their measurements of his march across Asia; these were also the foundation of the book of Amyntas, variously alluded to as Σταθμοὶ ᾿Ασίας, Σταθμοὶ Περσικοί, and simply Σταθμοὶ (references Susemihl i p. 54). Eratosthenes used the later Seleucid survey in the form of ᾿Ασιατικοὶ Σταθμοί, Strabo xv, 723; Kiessling, \*Hekatompylos\* in PW col. 2794, showed that in places this survey differed from the measurements of the bematists, and fragments of it have been identified in the Peutinger Table (Tomaschek, \*Wien SB\* cii, 1883, p. 145). In \*CAH\* ix p. 586 n. 3 I suggested that some of the discrepancies in measurements between Eratosthenes-Strabo and Pliny might reflect differences between the Seleucid and Parthian surveys; on Pliny’s use of Isidore, \*i.e.\* the Parthian survey, see now Herzfeld, \*Sakastan\* pp. 5 sq. - [Previous: c9.s2.127](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c9.s2.127) - [Next: c9.s2.129](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c9.s2.129) - [Up: c9.s2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c9.s2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c9.s2.128](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c9.s2.128) · Pramāṇa