An edition of The Greeks in Asia
(2015)
The Greeks in Asia
by John Boardman
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"This book recounts the influence of Greek communities and their culture across Central Asia, India and Western China, from the Bronze Age through the rise of Islam."--Provided by publisher.
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Table of Contents
Greece and the east: beginnings.
Eastern origins ;
Greeks going east --
Greeks and Achaemenid Persia.
The confrontation ;
Greeks in the Persian Empire ;
The view from home ;
The view from Homeric heritage --
Greeks and Alexander "the Great."
The invasion of the Persian Empire ;
Into Asia ;
The Hellenistic heritage: 3rd to 1st centuries BC --
The new Greek kingdoms in the east.
The kingdoms ;
Their cities and art ;
Their coinage --
Greeks and their arts in Central Asia.
Greeks and nomads: Scythians, Sarmatians ;
The Yuehzhi and Tillya Tepe ;
The farther east --
Greeks and their arts in India.
The Mauryans and Buddhism ;
The Sunga dynasty ;
Taxila and Gandhara ;
Greek and/or Roman - a memo ;
The "Gandhara style" in sculpture --
Greeks, Romans, Parthians and Sasanians: before Islam --
Epilogue: myth, history and archeology.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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