The Greeks in Asia
By: John Boardman
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780500252130
Subjects: Greek influences; Civilization; Pictorial works; Asian Art; Greeks; Oriental Civilization; History
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Greece and the east: beginnings.; title: Eastern origins ;; title: Greeks going east --; title: Greeks and Achaemenid Persia.; title: The confrontation ;; title: Greeks in the Persian Empire ;; title: The view from home ;; title: The view from Homeric heritage --; title: Greeks and Alexander "the Great."; title: The invasion of the Persian Empire ;; title: Into Asia ;; title: The Hellenistic heritage: 3rd to 1st centuries BC --; title: The new Greek kingdoms in the east.; title: The kingdoms ;; title: Their cities and art ;; title: Their coinage --; title: Greeks and their arts in Central Asia.; title: Greeks and nomads: Scythians, Sarmatians ;; title: The Yuehzhi and Tillya Tepe ;; title: The farther east --; title: Greeks and their arts in India.; title: The Mauryans and Buddhism ;; title: The Sunga dynasty ;; title: Taxila and Gandhara ;; title: Greek and/or Roman - a memo ;; title: The "Gandhara style" in sculpture --; title: Greeks, Romans, Parthians and Sasanians: before Islam --; title: Epilogue: myth, history and archeology.