[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.s2.32 # The Greeks in Bactria and India c9.s2.32 The Greeks in Bactria and India c9.s2.32 - **Language:** English ### [c9.s2.32](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c9.s2.32) ⁵ The initial letters of the first 23 lines of the ’Αναγραφὴ τῆς ’Ελλάδος of Dionysius son of Calliphon (\*GGM\* I p. 238; Dionysius 115 in \*PW\*) give Διονυσίου τοῦ Καλλιφῶντος; professedly early third century B.C. There are two acrostics, ll. 109–34 and 513–32, in the Οἰκουμένης περιήγησις of Dionysius (\*GGM\* II p. 103; Dionysius 94 in \*PW\* col. 917; Graf, \*Akrostichis\* in \*PW\*, who also mentions some others); Hadrian’s time. See further J. U. Powell, \*New Chapters in the history of Greek literature\*, third series, 1933 p. 202, who cites two good specimens from Kaibel, \*Epigrammata Graeca\* nos. 979 (late first century B.C.) and 1096. I may add two more: (1) the Hymn of Maximus from Talmis in Ethiopia (\*BCH\* 1894 p. 150; Kaibel, \*Berlin SB\* 1890 p. 781; G. Manteuffel, \*Eos\* xxxi, 1928, p. 181; cf. A. D. Nock, \*Harvard Theolog. Rev.\* xxvii, 1934, p. 59), where ll. 1–22 give Μαξίμος Δεκουρίων ἔγραψα; (2) a Latin Hymn to Apollo from Talmis, Bücheler, \*Carm. Lat. Epigr.\* 271, cf. Nock \*op. cit.\* p. 61. - [Previous: c9.s2.31](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c9.s2.31) - [Next: c9.s2.33](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c9.s2.33) - [Up: c9.s2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c9.s2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c9.s2.32](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c9.s2.32) · Pramāṇa