ABSTRACT
This chapter is to demonstrate that the policy of Aśoka, which was discussed in the previous chapter, did not have such a huge impact on the propagation of Buddhism among the Greeks, as it might seem from the edicts of the Emperor. Secondly, this chapter bridges the chronological gap between the times of Aśoka and the Indo-Greek kingdom and it contextualizes the following chapter. And finally, it illustrates the situation of the Greeks in Bactria and India. Because most of the material from the Hellenistic Far East, which can be regarded as uniquely Greek, comes from the areas of ancient Bactria, thus these areas give us the opportunity to better understand, how the Greeks functioned in the East. For this purpose, two case studies will be examined in more detail, first, Ai Khanoum as a lieu de mémoire, and secondly, several inscriptions from the Hellenistic Far East, such as the inscription of the son of Aristonax, of Sophytos, and of Heliodotus.
