Historical questions

[Pharnakes]

As part of my mini mod, notbeing a historian, I am comming into many questions that I would like an answer to. I put these in a seperate thread, since I feel that they might as well become historical discusions, so there is no need to feel you are hijacking the thread if you branch off topic a bit.

Did galatains ever get as far a Baktria in signifigant numbers?
To what extent did the western greeks utilise Galatains?
How did the Pahalavians treat/utilise the eastern greeks? (I know very well, as a general rule, but anyone got some specifics/exampoles?)


More will be forth comming

Thank you.

[cmacq]

Pharnakes, please see these for the first question.

The Galatian Settlement in Asia Minor
Gareth Darbyshire, Stephen Mitchell, and Levent Vardar
Anatolian Studies, Vol. 50, 2000 (2000), pp. 75-97.

link
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=006...3E2.0.CO%3B2-P

Companion To The Hellenistic World
Andrew Erskine 2005

link
http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&...S3ZZu3r_-SCZg0

Celts and the Classical World
David Rankin, 1987

no link

Hope these may help.

[paullus]

Some Galatians at least got as far as Baktria in the armies of the Seleukids. I don't think we can certainly attest any in a Baktrian army per se, but its possible at least.

The Pahlavi treated their Greeks pretty well, and quite a few of the Greeks served the Pahlavi, politically and militarily.

[MeinPanzer]

The most easterly evidence for Galatians comes from the mention in Maccabees 2.20 of a Galatian invasion of Babylonia along with some terracotta figurines from Seleucia on the Tigris which seem to show Galatian mercenaries.