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b'Synopsis: The rediscovery of Ai Khanoum testified to the wealth and power of the Bactrian Kingdom.\\xa0 Mithridates\\u2019 conquest of Babylonia is countered by an unlikely coalition.\\n\\u201cThe cities of Bactria were Bactra, which they also call Zariaspa and through which flows a river of the same name that empties into the Oxus, plus the city of Darapsa, and others more. Among these was a city called Eucratideia, named after its ruler\\u2026 (The Greeks) also controlled Sogdiana, which lies above and to the east of Bactria between the Oxus River \\u2013 demarcating Bactrians from Sogdians \\u2013 and the Jaxartes River, likewise separating the Sogdians from the nomads.\\u201d \\u2013 Strabo, Geography, 11.11.2\\n\\n\\u201cThese wise sayings of earlier men, the words of well-known men, are enshrined in the holy Pytho.\\xa0 There Clearchus copied them faithfully, and set them up here in the sanctuary of Kineas, blazing from afar.\\n\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 As a child, be well-behaved.\\n\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 As a youth, be self-controlled.\\n\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 As an adult, be just.\\n\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 As an elder, be wise.\\n\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 As one dying, be without pain.\\u201d\\n\\xa0\\u2013 Inscription at the Heroon (hero\\u2019s tomb) of Kineas, oikistes (founder) of the city of Ai Khanoum, Afghanistan, dated 300 \\u2013 250 BC\\xa0\\n\\n\\nMap of Ai Khanoum and Ashoka Rock Edicts\\nhttps://audio.ancientworldpodcast.com/Ai_Khanoum.jpg\\nMap of the Eastern Satrapies\\nhttps://audio.ancientworldpodcast.com/Eastern_Satrapies.jpg\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'