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With Alexander in India and Central Asia : Moving East and Back to West.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Havertown : Oxbow Books, Limited, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (303 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781785705854
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: With Alexander in India and Central AsiaDDC classification:
  • 938.07092
LOC classification:
  • DF234
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Introduction -- Part I: Babylon, the Upper Satrapies and the Iranian Peoples -- 1. "Kislīmu Day 10, Year 31, Seleucus and Antiochus the Kings": Greek Elements in Babylonian Sources -- 2. Aspects of Seleucid Iconography and Kingship -- 3. Alexandre le Grand en Asie Centrale. Geographie et Strategie de la Conquete des Portes Caspiennes à l'Inde -- 4. The Scythians and the Eastern Limits of the Greek Infl uence: The Pazyryk Culture and Its Foreign Artistic Infl uences -- 5. Alexandre le Grand et les Russes: Un Regard sur le Conquérant Porté depuis l'Asie Centrale -- 6. Parthia, Bactria and India: The Iranian Policies of Alexander of Macedonia (330-323) -- Part II: From Paropamisus to the Indus Mouth and to the Persian Gulf -- 7. The Indian Caucasus from Alexander to Eratosthenes -- 8. Megasthenes Thirty Years Later -- 9. Indian Ethnography in Alexandrian Sources: A Missed Opportunity? -- 10. Uneasy Riders: With Alexander and Nearchus from Pattala to Rhambakia -- 11. From the Indus to the Pasitigris: Some Remarks on the Periplus of Nearchus in the Arrian's Indiké.
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Intro -- Introduction -- Part I: Babylon, the Upper Satrapies and the Iranian Peoples -- 1. "Kislīmu Day 10, Year 31, Seleucus and Antiochus the Kings": Greek Elements in Babylonian Sources -- 2. Aspects of Seleucid Iconography and Kingship -- 3. Alexandre le Grand en Asie Centrale. Geographie et Strategie de la Conquete des Portes Caspiennes à l'Inde -- 4. The Scythians and the Eastern Limits of the Greek Infl uence: The Pazyryk Culture and Its Foreign Artistic Infl uences -- 5. Alexandre le Grand et les Russes: Un Regard sur le Conquérant Porté depuis l'Asie Centrale -- 6. Parthia, Bactria and India: The Iranian Policies of Alexander of Macedonia (330-323) -- Part II: From Paropamisus to the Indus Mouth and to the Persian Gulf -- 7. The Indian Caucasus from Alexander to Eratosthenes -- 8. Megasthenes Thirty Years Later -- 9. Indian Ethnography in Alexandrian Sources: A Missed Opportunity? -- 10. Uneasy Riders: With Alexander and Nearchus from Pattala to Rhambakia -- 11. From the Indus to the Pasitigris: Some Remarks on the Periplus of Nearchus in the Arrian's Indiké.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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