Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Prefaces
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- PART I (INTRODUCTORY): THE BACKGROUND IN THE MIDDLE EAST
- PART II BACTRIA AND INDIA
- CONCLUSION
- Excursus. The Milindapañha and Pseudo-Aristeas
- Appendix 1 Monograms and find-spots
- Appendix 2 The names in -ηνη
- Appendix 3 Agathocles' pedigree coins
- Appendix 4 The Yuga-purāna of the Gārgī Samhitā
- Appendix 5 Demetrius in the Hāthigumphā inscription of Khāravela
- Appendix 6 Alexandria of the Caucasus and Kapisa
- Appendix 7 Antiochus IV and the temple of Nanaia
- Appendix 8 A sealing from Seleuceia
- Appendix 9 Ki-pin (Kophen) and ‘Arachosia’
- Appendix 10 Ta-yuan
- Appendix 11 Chorasmia
- Appendix 12 Ormuz: a lost kingdom
- Appendix 13 Σάγαλα ἡ καὶ Εὐθυμέδεια
- Appendix 14 The supposed Oxo-Caspian trade route
- Appendix 15 The Oxus question to-day
- Appendix 16 The Era of the Moga copperplate from Taxila
- Appendix 17 The Hermaeus-Kujula Kadphises coins
- Appendix 18 San and Rho
- Appendix 19 Pāndava-Pāndu and Pāndhya
- Appendix 20 The Chinese sources
- Appendix 21 The Greek names of the Tochari
- Addenda
- Addenda (1950) to the Second Edition
- General Index
- Index of Principal Greek and Latin Passages
- Plate section
Appendix 2 - The names in -ηνη
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 November 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Prefaces
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- PART I (INTRODUCTORY): THE BACKGROUND IN THE MIDDLE EAST
- PART II BACTRIA AND INDIA
- CONCLUSION
- Excursus. The Milindapañha and Pseudo-Aristeas
- Appendix 1 Monograms and find-spots
- Appendix 2 The names in -ηνη
- Appendix 3 Agathocles' pedigree coins
- Appendix 4 The Yuga-purāna of the Gārgī Samhitā
- Appendix 5 Demetrius in the Hāthigumphā inscription of Khāravela
- Appendix 6 Alexandria of the Caucasus and Kapisa
- Appendix 7 Antiochus IV and the temple of Nanaia
- Appendix 8 A sealing from Seleuceia
- Appendix 9 Ki-pin (Kophen) and ‘Arachosia’
- Appendix 10 Ta-yuan
- Appendix 11 Chorasmia
- Appendix 12 Ormuz: a lost kingdom
- Appendix 13 Σάγαλα ἡ καὶ Εὐθυμέδεια
- Appendix 14 The supposed Oxo-Caspian trade route
- Appendix 15 The Oxus question to-day
- Appendix 16 The Era of the Moga copperplate from Taxila
- Appendix 17 The Hermaeus-Kujula Kadphises coins
- Appendix 18 San and Rho
- Appendix 19 Pāndava-Pāndu and Pāndhya
- Appendix 20 The Chinese sources
- Appendix 21 The Greek names of the Tochari
- Addenda
- Addenda (1950) to the Second Edition
- General Index
- Index of Principal Greek and Latin Passages
- Plate section
Summary
The form of name ending in -ηνη (or -ιανη) which is proper to the Seleucid eparchies has been considered in Chapter i. But as in Chapter vi I have made use of this form as a test with regard to certain passages in Ptolemy's account of India, it is necessary to consider the converse question: granted that the -ηνη form is the most characteristic form for the names of the Seleucid eparchies and for the satrapies of Seleucid Succession states or of states which were influenced by and copied the Seleucid (or, what comes to the same thing, the Parthian) organisation, do we find, eastward of the Euphrates, -ηνη (or -ιανη) forms which mean something other than such eparchies or satrapies; or, to apply it to the particular case in question, when we meet Greek -ηνη forms in Ptolemy's (or anyone else's) description of India, a country which at the period in question (second century b.c.) had never been under Seleucid or Parthian influence, are we justified in treating these names as the names of the provinces of a Greek kingdom? I have tried to collect any seeming exceptions I can find in the relevant Greek literature and must now go through them; I am not of course noticing the mass of such forms in Strabo, Ptolemy, and elsewhere which are obviously either eparchies of a known satrapy or satrapal provinces of a known kingdom. To avoid misconception, I must emphasise once more that I am only here dealing with Asia east of the Euphrates, the new world which the Greeks settled and which never became Roman, though in fact Pontus, Cappadocia, and Armenia Minor exhibit the same phenomena.
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- The Greeks in Bactria and India , pp. 442 - 445Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1938