ABSTRACT
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.
The Introduction and Chapter 17 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at https://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|116 pages
Interactions
chapter Chapter 6|19 pages
China and Bactria during the reign of Emperor Wu in written tradition and in archaeology
part II|90 pages
History of Scholarship
chapter Chapter 7|15 pages
The quest for Bactra
chapter Chapter 8|29 pages
The original ‘failure’? A century of French archaeology in Afghan Bactria 1
chapter Chapter 9|44 pages
Hellenism With or Without Alexander the Great
part III|202 pages
Regional Archaeological Survey
part IV|48 pages
Written Sources
chapter Chapter 17|11 pages
Greek inscriptions and documentary texts and the Graeco-Roman historical tradition
chapter Chapter 18|16 pages
Reading the Milindapañha
part V|72 pages
Numismatic Sources
chapter Chapter 20|20 pages
History from coins
chapter Chapter 24|17 pages
The last phase of the Indo-Greeks
part VI|56 pages
Culture and Identity
chapter Chapter 27|10 pages
Representation of GREEK gods/goddesses in Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek visual culture
chapter Chapter 28|13 pages
Roman objects in the Begram hoard and the memory of Greek rule in Kushan Central Asia
part VII|90 pages
Beyond the Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek Worlds