ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines the evidence for the survival of Greek language, religion and art in the culture of Scythian, Parthian and Kushan kingdoms which inherited the territories formerly ruled by the Greek kingdoms in Afghanistan, Pakistan and north-western India. It also examines the continued use of Greek names and institutions into the early centuries AD, and the use of Greek script and loan words in the region until the ninth century. It questions the validity of the use of the term ‘Graeco-Buddhist art’ in discourse concerning the Buddhist art of Gandhāra.
