Quote Originally Posted by MeinPanzer
Not necessarily. Some Greeks were higher class, but not all. Remember that many of the Greeks who ended up in Baktria were simply mercenaries, which meant that they would not have been particularly wealthy unless given land and made into katoikai.
I didn't mean they had been nobles before getting there, I meant that that in these kingdoms Greeks formed the upper-classes while the lower classes tended to be made up of natives. Baktria wasn't a Greek state, it was a state run by a Greek elite.