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Book India and the Hellenistic World

Download or read book India and the Hellenistic World written by Klaus Karttunen and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book India and the Hellenistic World

Download or read book India and the Hellenistic World written by Klaus Karttunen and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Hellenistic World

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  • Author : Frank William Walbank
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 1981
  • ISBN : 9780674387263
  • Pages : 300 pages

Download or read book The Hellenistic World written by Frank William Walbank and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vast empire that Alexander the Great left at his death in 323 BC has few parallels. For the next three hundred years the Greeks controlled a complex of monarchies and city-states that stretched from the Adriatic Sea to India. F. W. Walbank's lucid and authoritative history of that Hellenistic world examines political events, describes the different social systems and mores of the people under Greek rule, traces important developments in literature and science, and discusses the new religious movements.

Book The Greek Experience of India

Download or read book The Greek Experience of India written by Richard Stoneman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of how the Greeks reacted to and interacted with India from the third to first centuries BCE. When the Greeks and Macedonians in Alexander's army reached India in 326 BCE, they entered a new and strange world. They knew a few legends and travelers' tales, but their categories of thought were inadequate to encompass what they witnessed. The plants were unrecognizable, their properties unknown. The customs of the people were various and puzzling. While Alexander's conquest was brief, ending with his death in 323 BCE, the Greeks would settle in the Indian region for the next two centuries, forging an era of productive interactions between the two cultures. The Greek Experience of India explores the various ways that the Greeks reacted to and constructed life in India during this fruitful period. From observations about botany and mythology to social customs, Richard Stoneman examines the surviving evidence of those who traveled to India. Most particularly, he offers a full and valuable look at Megasthenes, ambassador of the Seleucid king Seleucus to Chandragupta Maurya, and provides a detailed discussion of Megasthenes's now-fragmentary book Indica. Stoneman considers the art, literature, and philosophy of the Indo-Greek kingdom and how cultural influences crossed in both directions, with the Greeks introducing their writing, coinage, and sculptural and architectural forms, while Greek craftsmen learned to work with new materials such as ivory and stucco and to probe the ideas of Buddhists and other ascetics.

Book Hellenism in Ancient India  1920

Download or read book Hellenism in Ancient India 1920 written by Gauranga Nath Banerjee and published by . This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Book Hellenism in Ancient India

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  • Author : Gauranga Nath Banerjee
  • Publisher : Mittal Publications
  • Release :
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 370 pages

Download or read book Hellenism in Ancient India written by Gauranga Nath Banerjee and published by Mittal Publications. This book was released on with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Hellenistic Settlements in the East from Armenia and Mesopotamia to Bactria and India

Download or read book The Hellenistic Settlements in the East from Armenia and Mesopotamia to Bactria and India written by Getzel M. Cohen and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013-06-02 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the third volume of Getzel CohenÕs important work on the Hellenistic settlements in the ancient world. Through the conquests of Alexander the Great, his successors and others, Greek and Macedonian culture spread deep into Asia, with colonists settling as far away as Bactria and India. In this book, Cohen provides historical narratives, detailed references, citations, and commentaries on all the Graeco-Macedonian settlements founded (or refounded) in the East. Organized geographically, Cohen pulls together discoveries and debates from dozens of widely scattered archaeological and epigraphic projects, making a distinct contribution to ongoing questions and opening new avenues of inquiry.

Book Hellenism in Ancient India

Download or read book Hellenism in Ancient India written by Gauranga Nath Banerjee and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Belonging and Isolation in the Hellenistic World

Download or read book Belonging and Isolation in the Hellenistic World written by Sheila L. Ager and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hellenistic period was a time of unprecedented cultural exchange. In the wake of Alexander's conquests, Greeks and Macedonians began to encounter new peoples, new ideas, and new ways of life; consequently, this era is generally considered to have been one of unmatched cosmopolitanism. For many individuals, however, the broadening of horizons brought with it an identity crisis and a sense of being adrift in a world that had undergone a radical structural change. Belonging and Isolation in the Hellenistic World presents essays by leading international scholars who consider how the cosmopolitanism of the Hellenistic age also brought about tensions between individuals and communities, and between the small local community and the mega-community of oikoumene, or 'the inhabited earth.' With a range of social, artistic, economic, political, and literary perspectives, the contributors provide a lively exploration of the tensions and opportunities of life in the Hellenistic Mediterranean.

Book The Greeks in Bactria and India  Second Edition

Download or read book The Greeks in Bactria and India Second Edition written by Sir W. W. Tarn and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-23 with total page 1144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a highly regarded scholar in the field, this book represents the first published study on the Greek kingdoms of Bactria and India that treats them as Hellenistic states. Referring to classical Western and Indian sources, as well as numismatics, the author gives a multi-faceted account of their dynastic rule and conquest. The book begins with an overview of the Seleucid settlement, providing a background to the relations between Greeks and Asiatics after the death of Alexander the Great. Covering the period from 206 to 145 BCE, the book analyses the reigns of Euthydemus I, Demetrius I and Menander I, and explains how they accomplished Alexander’s dream of co-operation instead of domination in the eastern provinces. Tarn’s work examines this little-discussed topic, and presents it to the reader in a clear and accessible style, making this a great scholarly contribution that remains unsurpassed in breadth and depth. The second edition, originally published in 1951, includes an Addendum explaining the further discoveries since the work was first published in 1938.

Book India and the Greek World

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  • Author : Jean W. Sedlar
  • Publisher : Totowa, N.J. : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 1980
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 416 pages

Download or read book India and the Greek World written by Jean W. Sedlar and published by Totowa, N.J. : Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1980 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book India and the Hellenistic World

Download or read book India and the Hellenistic World written by and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Making of Roman India

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  • Author : Grant Parker
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2008-04-24
  • ISBN : 0521858348
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Making of Roman India written by Grant Parker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-04-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses ancient Greek and Roman perceptions of India during a thousand-year period.

Book Art in the Hellenistic World

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  • Author : Andrew Stewart
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2014-10-06
  • ISBN : 1316061450
  • Pages : 485 pages

Download or read book Art in the Hellenistic World written by Andrew Stewart and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-06 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was Hellenistic art, and what were its contexts, aims, achievements, and impact? This textbook introduces students to these questions and offers a series of answers to them. Its twelve chapters and two 'focus' sections examine Hellenistic sculpture, painting, luxury arts, and architecture. Thematically organized, spanning the three centuries from Alexander to Augustus, and ranging geographically from Italy to India and the Black Sea to Nubia, the book examines key monuments of Hellenistic art in relation to the great political, social, cultural, and intellectual issues of the time. It is illustrated with 170 photographs (mostly in color, and many never before published) and contextualized through excerpts from Hellenistic literature and inscriptions. Helpful ancillary features include maps, appendices with background on Hellenistic artists and translations of key documents, a full glossary, a timeline, brief biographies of key figures, suggestions for further reading, and bibliographical references.

Book The Hellenistic Age

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  • Author : Peter Thonemann
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2018
  • ISBN : 0198746040
  • Pages : 153 pages

Download or read book The Hellenistic Age written by Peter Thonemann and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The three centuries following the conquests of Alexander were perhaps the most thrilling of all periods of ancient history. Culture, ideas, and individuals travelled freely over vast areas from the Rhone to the Indus, whilst dynasts battled for dominion over Alexander's great empire. Thonemann presents a brief history of this globalized world.

Book The Greeks in Bactria and India

Download or read book The Greeks in Bactria and India written by William Woodthorpe Tarn and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-24 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landmark study of the Greek kingdoms of Bactria and India that treats them as Hellenistic states.

Book Age of Conquests

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  • Author : Angelos Chaniotis
  • Publisher : History of the Ancient World
  • Release : 2018
  • ISBN : 0674659643
  • Pages : 481 pages

Download or read book Age of Conquests written by Angelos Chaniotis and published by History of the Ancient World. This book was released on 2018 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world that Alexander remade in his lifetime was transformed once again by his death in 323 BCE. Over time, trade and intellectual achievement resumed, but Cleopatra's death in 30 BCE brought this Hellenistic moment to a close--or so the story goes. Angelos Chaniotis reveals a Hellenistic world that continued to Hadrian's death in 138 CE.