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Indo-Greeks. --- India --- History
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An exploration of how the Greeks reacted to and interacted with India from the third to first centuries BCE. When the Greeks and Macedonians in Alexander's army reached India in 326 BCE, they entered a new and strange world. They knew a few legends and travelers' tales, but their categories of thought were inadequate to encompass what they witnessed. The plants were unrecognizable, their properties unknown. The customs of the people were various and puzzling. While Alexander's conquest was brief, ending with his death in 323 BCE, the Greeks would settle in the Indian region for the next two centuries, forging an era of productive interactions between the two cultures. The Greek Experience of India explores the various ways that the Greeks reacted to and constructed life in India during this fruitful period. From observations about botany and mythology to social customs, Richard Stoneman examines the surviving evidence of those who traveled to India. Most particularly, he offers a full and valuable look at Megasthenes, ambassador of the Seleucid king Seleucus to Chandragupta Maurya, and provides a detailed discussion of Megasthenes's now-fragmentary book Indica. Stoneman considers the art, literature, and philosophy of the Indo-Greek kingdom and how cultural influences crossed in both directions, with the Greeks introducing their writing, coinage, and sculptural and architectural forms, while Greek craftsmen learned to work with new materials such as ivory and stucco and to probe the ideas of Buddhists and other ascetics.
Indo-Greeks --- Civilization --- Indo-Greeks. --- Greek influences. --- 324 B.C.-1000 A.D. --- India --- India. --- History --- Greece
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"This book provides the first comprehensive and interdisciplinary view of the relationship between the Greeks and Buddhist communities in ancient Bactria and Northwest India, from the conquests of Alexander the Great to the fall of the Indo-Greek kingdom circa 10 AD. The main thesis of this book is the assumption that, despite the presence of mutual relationships and interactions between the Greeks and Buddhist inhabitants of the Hellenistic Far East, the phenomenon known conventionally as 'Greco-Buddhism' never truly occurred. The individual chapters of this book provide an analysis of the main sources for Greco-Buddhist relations, mainly textual, but also archaeological and numismatic. The methods of philological and historical research are used in combination with postcolonial approaches to the study of the Greeks in India drawing from sociological research on ethnicity and intercultural relations. It is a rich source of information for anyone interested in Greco-Buddhist relations and is a great starting point for further research in this area. This volume is a valuable resource for students and scholars working on the Greco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek kingdoms, both classicists and those working on early Indian history, as well as those working on cultural exchange in the Hellenistic world"--
Indo-Greeks --- Greeks --- Buddhists --- History. --- Bactria --- India, Northwestern --- India --- Ethnic relations. --- Antiquities. --- Civilization --- Greek influences. --- History
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This volume provides a thorough conspectus of the field of Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek studies, mixing theoretical and historical surveys with critical and thought-provoking case studies in archaeology, history, literature and art.The chapters from this international group of experts showcase innovative methodologies, such as archaeological GIS, as well as providing accessible explanations of specialist techniques such as die studies of coins, and important theoretical perspectives, including postcolonial approaches to the Greeks in India. Chapters cover the region’s archaeology, written and numismatic sources, and a history of scholarship of the subject, as well as culture, identity and interactions with neighbouring empires, including India and China.The Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek World is the go-to reference work on the field, and fulfils a serious need for an accessible, but also thorough and critically-informed, volume on the Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek kingdoms. It provides an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the Hellenistic East.
Regni ellenistici --- Storia. --- Battriana --- Greeks --- Indo-Greeks --- Coins, Greek --- Greek coins --- Ethnology --- Mediterranean race --- History. --- History --- E-books --- History, ancient --- Numismatics --- Antiques & collectibles
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Civilization --- Indiska influenser. --- Indo-Greeks. --- Greek influences. --- 324 B.C.-1000 A.D. --- 324 f.Kr.-1000 e.Kr. --- Grekland --- India --- India. --- Historia. --- History
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Sassanids --- Coins, Sassanid. --- Geographie. --- Historische Geographie. --- Literatur. --- Mittelpersisch. --- History. --- Geschichte 185 v. Chr.-439. --- Iran --- Iraq --- Iran (Altertum) --- Historical geography. --- Iran (Altertum). --- Indo-Greeks --- History --- Afghanistan --- Bactriane --- Irak --- Sassanides (dynastie) --- Antiquités sassanides --- Empire Kusāna --- Géographie historique --- 224-651 --- Jusqu'à 651 --- Jusqu'à 634
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