The Greeks in Asia / John Boardman.
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Boardman, John, 1927- (author.)
- ISBN 9780500252130
- Publicerad: London : Thames & Hudson, 2015
- Engelska 240 pages
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Sammanfattning
Ämnesord
Stäng
- 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.
- "This book recounts the influence of Greek communities and their culture across Central Asia, India and Western China, from the Bronze Age through the rise of Islam."--Provided by publisher.
Ämnesord
- Grekiska influenser (sao)
- Greker (sao)
- Kulturhistoria (sao)
- Civilization, Oriental -- Greek influences. (LCSH)
- Art, Asian -- Greek influences -- Pictorial works. (LCSH)
- Greeks -- Asia -- History. (LCSH)
- Civilization. (fast)
- Greeks. (fast)
- Art, Asian -- Greek influences. (fast)
- Civilization -- Greek influences. (fast)
- Civilization, Oriental -- Greek influences. (fast)
- Greeks (LCSH)
- Asia -- Civilization -- Greek influences. (LCSH)
- Greece -- Civilization -- History. (LCSH)
- Asia. (fast)
- Greece. (fast)
- Asien
Genre
- History. (fast)
- Pictorial works. (fast)
Klassifikation
- CB253 (LCC)
- 950.1 (DDC)
- Ko (kssb/8 (machine generated))
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