The Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek world. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Rachel Mairs.
• Editors: Mairs, Rachel
• Contents: 1. Introduction. Rachel Mairs Part I: Interactions 2. The Seleukid Empire Rolf Strootman 3. South Asia Sushma Jansari 4. Parthia Jacopo Bruno 5. Central Asia and the Steppe Sören Stark 6. China and Bactria during the reign of Emperor Wu in written tradition and in archaeology Lukas Nickel Part II: History of scholarship 7. The Quest for Bactra: Scholarship on the Graeco-Bactrian kingdom from its origins to the end of colonialism Omar Coloru 8. The Original ‘failure’? A century of French archaeology in Afghan Bactria Annick Fenet 9. Hellenism with or without Alexander the Great: Russian, Soviet and Central Asian approaches Svetlana Gorshenina and Claude Rapin Part IV: Regional archaeological survey 10. Afghan Bactria Laurianne Martienz-Sève 11. Southern Uzbekistan Ladislav Stančo 12. Southern Tajikistan Gunvor Lindström 13. Sogdiana Bertille Lyonnet 14. Merv and Margiana Gabriele Puschnigg 15. Arachosia, Drangiana and Areia Warwick Ball 16. Gandhāra and North-Western India Luca M. Olivieri Part IV: Written sources 17. Greek inscriptions and documentary texts and the Graeco-Roman historical tradition Rachel Mairs 18. Reading the Milindapañha : Indian historical sources and the Greeks in Bactria Olga Kubica 19. Chinese historical sources and the Greeks in the Western Regions Juping Yang Part V: Numismatic sources 20. History from coins: The role of numismatics in the study of the Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek worlds Simon Glenn 21. Two sides of the coin: from Sophytes to Skanda-Kārttikeya Sushma Jansari 22. Dating Bactria's independence to 246/5 BC? Jens Jakobsson 23. Monetary politics during the early Graeco-Bactrian kingdom (250-190 BCE) Olivier Bordeaux 24. The last phase of the Indo-Greeks: Methods, interpretations and new insights in reconstructing the past Shailendra Bhandare Part VI: Culture and identity 25. Ai Khanoum, between east and west: A composite architecture Guy Lecuyot 26. Globalization and interpreting visual culture Milinda Hoo 27. Representation of Greek gods/goddesses in Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek visual culture Suchandra Ghosh 28. 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 29. Central Asia in the Achaemenid period Xin Wu 30. Achaemenid north-west South Asia Cameron A. Petrie 31. Greekness after the end of the Bactrian and Indo-Greek kingdoms Joe Cribb
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 939.6; Greeks -- Asia, Central -- History; Indo-Greeks -- History; Coins, Greek -- Asia, Central; Coinage -- Asia, Central -- History; Bactria -- Antiquities; Asia, Central -- Antiquities; India -- Antiquities
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351610278; 9781351610285; 9781351610261; 9781315108513
• Related ISBNs: 9781138090699
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