The Greeks in Asia /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Boardman, John, 1927-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Thames & Hudson, 2015.
Subjects:	Greeks > Asia > History. Asia > Civilization > History. Asia > Civilization > Greek influences. Art, Asian > Greek influences.

Table of Contents:

Greece and the east: beginnings. Eastern origins ; Greeks going east
Greeks and Achaemenid Persia. The confrontation ; Greeks in the Persian Empire ; The view from home ; The view from Homeric heritage
Greeks and Alexander "the Great." The invasion of the Persian Empire ; Into Asia ; The Hellenistic heritage: 3rd to 1st centuries BC
The new Greek kingdoms in the east. The kingdoms ; Their cities and art ; Their coinage
Greeks and their arts in Central Asia. Greeks and nomads: Scythians, Sarmatians ; The Yuehzhi and Tillya Tepe ; The farther east
Greeks and their arts in India. The Mauryans and Buddhism ; The Sunga dynasty ; Taxila and Gandhara ; Greek and/or Roman - a memo ; The "Gandhara style" in sculpture
Greeks, Romans, Parthians and Sasanians: before Islam
Epilogue: myth, history and archeology.