Ai-Khanoum, a Greek city on the Oxus

Name: Ai-Khanoum, a Greek city on the Oxus
Start: -0280
End: -0145
Location: Ai-Khanoum, northern Afghanistan

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c. 280 BC–145 BC · Ai-Khanoum, northern Afghanistan · Asia · Culture

The maxims of Delphi carved in stone 5,000 km from Delphi

Ai-Khanoum, a Greek city on the Oxus — Wikimedia Commons

Where the Oxus meets the Kokcha stood a Hellenistic city with a gymnasium, a theatre for thousands and a palace. One Clearchus copied the Delphic maxims and carved them here: 'As a child be well-behaved, as a youth self-controlled…'. The site was found in 1961 when Afghanistan's king came across a Corinthian capital while hunting.

State: Seleucid Empire

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