Section 1. Interactions -- Section 2. History of scholarship -- Section 3. Regional archaeological survey -- Section 4. Written sources -- Section 5. Numismatic sources -- Section 6. Culture and identity -- Section 7. Beyond the Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek worlds. Greekness after the end of the Bactrian and Indo-Greek kingdoms / Joe Cribb. Part I: Interactions. The Seleukid Empire / Rolf Strootman -- South Asia / Sushma Jansari -- Parthia / Jacopo Bruno -- Central Asia and the Steppe / Sören Stark -- China and Bactria during the reign of Emperor Wu in written tradition and in archaeology / Lukas Nickel -- Part II: History of scholarship -- The Quest for Bactra: Scholarship on the Graeco-Bactrian kingdom from its origins to the end of colonialism / Omar Coloru -- The Original 'failure'? A century of French archaeology in Afghan Bactria / Annick Fenet -- Hellenism with or without Alexander the Great: Russian, Soviet and Central Asian approaches / Svetlana Gorshenina and Claude Rapin -- Part IV: Regional archaeological survey -- Afghan Bactria / Laurianne Martienz-Sève -- Southern Uzbekistan / Ladislav Stančo -- Southern Tajikistan / Gunvor Lindström -- Sogdiana / Bertille Lyonnet -- Merv and Margiana / Gabriele Puschnigg -- Arachosia, Drangiana and Areia / Warwick Ball -- Gandhāra and North-Western India / Luca M. Olivieri -- Part IV: Written sources -- Greek inscriptions and documentary texts and the Graeco-Roman historical tradition / Rachel Mairs -- Reading the Milindapañha: Indian historical sources and the Greeks in Bactria / Olga Kubica -- Chinese historical sources and the Greeks in the Western Regions / Juping Yang -- Part V: Numismatic sources -- History from coins: The role of numismatics in the study of the Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek worlds / Simon Glenn -- Two sides of the coin: from Sophytes to Skanda-Kārttikeya / Sushma Jansari -- Dating Bactria's independence to 246/5 BC? / Jens Jakobsson -- Monetary politics during the early Graeco-Bactrian kingdom (250-190 BCE) / Olivier Bordeaux -- The last phase of the Indo-Greeks: Methods, interpretations and new insights in reconstructing the past / Shailendra Bhandare -- Part VI: Culture and identity -- Ai Khanoum, between east and west: A composite architecture / Guy Lecuyot -- Globalization and interpreting visual culture / Milinda Hoo -- Representation of Greek gods/goddesses in Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek visual culture / Suchandra Ghosh -- Roman objects in the Begram hoard and the memory of Greek rule in Kushan Central Asia / Lauren Morris -- Part VII: Beyond the Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek worlds -- Central Asia in the Achaemenid period / Xin Wu -- Achaemenid north-west South Asia / Cameron A. Petrie -- Greekness after the end of the Bactrian and Indo-Greek kingdoms / Joe Cribb.
Summary:
"This volume provides a solid grounding in the field of Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek studies, mixing theoretical and historical surveys with critical and thought-provoking case studies and in archaeology, history, literature and art. The chapters from this international group of experts showcase innovative methodologies, such as archaeological GIS, as well as providing accessible explanations of specialist techniques such as die studies of coins, as well as important theoretical perspectives, including postcolonial approaches to the Greeks in India. Chapters cover the region's archaeology, written and numismatic sources, and a history of scholarship of the subject, as well as culture, identity and interactions with neighbouring peoples, including China. The Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek World is the go-to reference work on the field, and fulfils a serious need for an accessible, but also thorough and critically-informed, volume on the Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek kingdoms. It provides an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the Hellenistic Greek East"-- Provided by publisher.
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