Rachel Mairs is Lecturer in Classics at Reading University and the author of The Archaeology of the Hellenistic Far East: A Survey.

"Scholars should be well satisfied with what is offered, and for any classicist the phenomenon of Indians or Central Asians writing good Greek verse with acrostic trimmings should be an incentive to read further around the subject." Common Knowledge

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments A Note on Abbreviations Introduction 1. Administering Bactria: From Achaemenid Satrapy to Graeco-Bactrian State 2. Ai Khanoum 3. Self-Representation in the Inscriptions of Sophytos (Arachosia) and Heliodoros (India) 4. Waiting for the Barbarians: The Fall of Greek Bactria Conclusion Appendix: Greek Documents Bibliography Index

Rachel Mairs is Lecturer in Classics at Reading University and the author of The Archaeology of the Hellenistic Far East: A Survey.

"Scholars should be well satisfied with what is offered, and for any classicist the phenomenon of Indians or Central Asians writing good Greek verse with acrostic trimmings should be an incentive to read further around the subject." Common Knowledge

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments A Note on Abbreviations Introduction 1. Administering Bactria: From Achaemenid Satrapy to Graeco-Bactrian State 2. Ai Khanoum 3. Self-Representation in the Inscriptions of Sophytos (Arachosia) and Heliodoros (India) 4. Waiting for the Barbarians: The Fall of Greek Bactria Conclusion Appendix: Greek Documents Bibliography Index

Rachel Mairs is Lecturer in Classics at Reading University and the author of The Archaeology of the Hellenistic Far East: A Survey.

"Scholars should be well satisfied with what is offered, and for any classicist the phenomenon of Indians or Central Asians writing good Greek verse with acrostic trimmings should be an incentive to read further around the subject." Common Knowledge

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments A Note on Abbreviations Introduction 1. Administering Bactria: From Achaemenid Satrapy to Graeco-Bactrian State 2. Ai Khanoum 3. Self-Representation in the Inscriptions of Sophytos (Arachosia) and Heliodoros (India) 4. Waiting for the Barbarians: The Fall of Greek Bactria Conclusion Appendix: Greek Documents Bibliography Index