The Greeks in Asia / John Boardman.

• 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))