The Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek World (Hardcover)

Introduction. Rachel Mairs Section 1: Interactions The Seleukid Empire Rolf Strootman South Asia Sushma Jansari Parthia Jacopo Bruno Central Asia and the Steppe Soren Stark China Lukas Nickel Section 2: 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 Section 3: Regional Archaeological Survey Afghan Bactria Laurianne Martienz-Seve Southern Uzbekistan Ladislav Stan?o Southern Tajikistan Gunvor Lindstrom Sogdiana Bertille Lyonnet Merv and Margiana Gabriele Puschnigg Arachosia, Drangiana and Areia Warwick Ball Gandh?ra and North-Western India Luca Maria Olivieri Section 4: Written Sources Greek Inscriptions and Documentary Texts, and the Graeco-Roman Historical Tradition Rachel Mairs Reading the Milindapanha: Indian Historical Sources and the Greeks in Bactria Olga Kubica Chinese Historical Sources and the Greeks in the Western Regions Juping Yang Section 5: 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-Ka?rttikeya 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 Section 6: 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 Section 7: Beyond the Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek Worlds Central Asia in the Achaemenid Period Xin Wu Achaemenid north-west South Asia Cameron Petrie Greekness after the end of the Bactrian and Indo-Greek kingdoms Joe Cribb