[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.s2.96 # The Greeks in Bactria and India c9.s2.96 The Greeks in Bactria and India c9.s2.96 - **Language:** English ### [c9.s2.96](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c9.s2.96) The history we are considering was then completed shortly after 87 B.C.; and the \*terminus post quem non\* is a simple matter. Ptolemy’s (temporary) kingdom of ‘Indo-Scythia’ must be from ‘Trogus’ source’ (p. 233); it can be dated to about the generation from \*c.\* 110 to \*c.\* 80 B.C., and as the Sacas were in Taxila before but only shortly before \*c.\* 77, the latest date for the beginning of their advance up the Indus from Abiria would be \*c.\* 80.¹ But that advance was unknown to Ptolemy, \*i.e.\* to our historian; the \*terminus post quem non\* for the completion of his history is therefore \*c.\* 80 B.C. On the other hand, the Parsii had reached Kabul at some time prior to 87 B.C. and Ptolemy’s knowledge of their presence in the Paropamisadae (Chap. VIII), which \*might\* come from our historian, is consistent with the above dating. The limits of the lost history we have been considering are therefore now pretty well blocked out,² and the date of its completion is to be put round about 85 B.C. - [Previous: c9.s2.95](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c9.s2.95) - [Next: c9.s2.97](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c9.s2.97) - [Up: c9.s2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c9.s2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c9.s2.96](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c9.s2.96) · Pramāṇa