The Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek world

The Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek world / edited by Rachel Mairs.

"This volume provides a solid grounding in the field of Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek studies, mixing theoretical and historical surveys with critical and thought-provoking case studies and in archaeology, history, literature and art. The chapters from this international group of experts showc...

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Main Author: Mairs, Rachel (Author, Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.
Series:Routledge worlds.
Subjects:
Greeks > Asia, Central > History.
Indo-Greeks > History.
Coins, Greek > Asia, Central.
Coinage > Asia, Central > History.
Bactria > Antiquities.
Asia, Central > Antiquities.
India > Antiquities.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Rachel Mairs
  • Part I: Interactions. The Seleukid Empire / Rolf Strootman
  • South Asia / Sushma Jansari
  • Parthia / Jacopo Bruno
  • Central Asia and the Steppe / Sören Stark
  • China and Bactria during the reign of Emperor Wu in written tradition and in archaeology / Lukas Nickel
  • Part II: History of scholarship
  • The Quest for Bactra: Scholarship on the Graeco-Bactrian kingdom from its origins to the end of colonialism / Omar Coloru
  • The Original 'failure'? A century of French archaeology in Afghan Bactria / Annick Fenet
  • Hellenism with or without Alexander the Great: Russian, Soviet and Central Asian approaches / Svetlana Gorshenina and Claude Rapin
  • Part IV: Regional archaeological survey
  • Afghan Bactria / Laurianne Martienz-Sève
  • Southern Uzbekistan / Ladislav Stančo
  • Southern Tajikistan / Gunvor Lindström
  • Sogdiana / Bertille Lyonnet
  • Merv and Margiana / Gabriele Puschnigg
  • Arachosia, Drangiana and Areia / Warwick Ball
  • Gandhāra and North-Western India / Luca M. Olivieri
  • Part IV: Written sources
  • Greek inscriptions and documentary texts and the Graeco-Roman historical tradition / Rachel Mairs
  • Reading the Milindapañha: Indian historical sources and the Greeks in Bactria / Olga Kubica
  • Chinese historical sources and the Greeks in the Western Regions / Juping Yang
  • Part V: Numismatic sources
  • History from coins: The role of numismatics in the study of the Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek worlds / Simon Glenn
  • Two sides of the coin: from Sophytes to Skanda-Kārttikeya / Sushma Jansari
  • Dating Bactria's independence to 246/5 BC? / Jens Jakobsson
  • Monetary politics during the early Graeco-Bactrian kingdom (250-190 BCE) / Olivier Bordeaux
  • The last phase of the Indo-Greeks: Methods, interpretations and new insights in reconstructing the past / Shailendra Bhandare
  • Part VI: Culture and identity
  • Ai Khanoum, between east and west: A composite architecture / Guy Lecuyot
  • Globalization and interpreting visual culture / Milinda Hoo
  • Representation of Greek gods/goddesses in Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek visual culture / Suchandra Ghosh
  • Roman objects in the Begram hoard and the memory of Greek rule in Kushan Central Asia / Lauren Morris
  • Part VII: Beyond the Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek worlds
  • Central Asia in the Achaemenid period / Xin Wu
  • Achaemenid north-west South Asia / Cameron A. Petrie
  • Greekness after the end of the Bactrian and Indo-Greek kingdoms / Joe Cribb.

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