The Greeks in Bactria and India
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9298253 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Neilson C Debevoise (corresponding author), C A Robinson (0000-0001-9769-5627, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1940 |
| Volume | 61 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 122-122 |
| Publication date | 1940-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | The Greeks in Bactria and India, William Woodthorpe Tarn, 2010 |
| Venue | The American Journal of Philology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9475 • E-ISSN: 1086-3168 |
| Publisher | Johns Hopkins University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/291455 |
| OpenAlex | W2564186680 |
| Language | EN |
Written by a highly regarded scholar in the field, this is the first published study on the Greek kingdoms of Bactria and India that treats them as Hellenistic states. The book begins with an overview of the Seleucid settlement, providing a background to the relations between Greeks and Asiatics after the death of Alexander the Great. Covering the period from 206 to 145 BCE, the book analyses the reigns of Euthydemus I, Demetrius I and Menander I, and explains how they accomplished Alexander's dream of co-operation instead of domination in the eastern provinces. Tarn's work examines this little-discussed topic and presents it to the reader in a clear and accessible style, making this a great scholarly contribution that remains unsurpassed in breadth and depth. The second edition from 1966 (reissued here) includes an Addendum explaining the further discoveries since the work was first published in 1951
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Greek Combat Sports and their Transmission to Central and East Asia
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The Visual Representation of Ptolemaic and Seleucid Kings
Proto-globalisation and biotic exchange in the Old World
Iranian Common Beliefs and World-View
Contextualizing a Ptolemaic Solution
Monarchies and monarchic Ideas
Jews in Iran
Warfare and the state
Iran, Armenia and Georgia
Zoroastrian Religion
The Karakhanids and early Islam
The Political History of Iran Under the Arsacids
Eigenart und Wesenszüge der Griechischen Kolonisation
Imperial and Indigenous Temporalities in the Ptolemaic and Seleucid Dynasties
Legitimizing the Foreign King in the Ptolemaic and Seleucid Empires
The Integration of Indigenous Elites and the Development of poleis in the Ptolemaic and Seleucid Empires
Imperial metropoleis and Foundation Myths
Minor States in Southern Iran
The Greeks of Bactria and India
The Political History of Iran Under the Sasanians
Iran and China
Iran and Mesopotamia
Cultural Relations between Parthia and Rome
Iran and the Arabs before Islam
The formation of the Hellenistic kingdoms
Middle Persian Inscriptions
Zoroastrian Pahlavī Writings
Bactrian Literature
Macedonia and the Greek leagues
Iranians in Asia Minor
Irano-Turkish Relations in the Late Sasanian Period
The Manichaean Middle Persian Writings
Antiochus III, Ptolemy IV, and Local Elites
The geographic setting
Reassessing Hellenistic Settlement Policies
Parthian Writings and Literature
The forest peoples of Manchuria
The Political History of Transoxiana
Sources of Parthian and Sasanian History
The Iranian Settlements to the East of the Pamirs
Political, Social and Administrative Institutions, Taxes and Trade
Monetary Policies, Coin Production, and Currency Supply in the Seleucid and Ptolemaic Empires
Cultural, social and economic features of the Hellenistic world
The History of Eastern Iran
The Hun period
The Hsiung-nu
The peoples of the Russian forest belt
Inner Asia at the dawn of history
The economic and social history of Former Han
The peoples of the south Russian steppes
The Position and Function of Colonies and Poleis in the Seleucid Economic System
De Atenas a Pataliputra
Śmierć M. Licyniusza Krassusa
On the problem of the localization of the cities on the Oxus in Ptolemy’s Geography
Constructing Ancient Central Asia’s Economic History
Egyptian Artefacts from Central and South Asia
Central Asian Empires
Comparing the Ptolemaic and Seleucid Empires
The Cambridge History of Early Inner Asia
Sissoo at Susa
The Kuṣāṇa Trilingual
Achaemenid Sattagydia and the geography of Vivana's campaigns (DB III, 54–75)
Chinese and Indo-Europeans
The Problems of Qūmis
The Roman Empire as Known to Han China
Les livres 41-42 des Histoires Philippiques de Trogue-Pompée résumées par Justin
From Three Possible Iron-Age World-Systems to a Single Afro-Eurasian World-System
Early Gold Ornaments of Southeast Asia
How Alexander entered India With a note on Ortospana (the ancient name of Ghazni)
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The 'Traditional date of Zoroaster' explained
Herakles and the ‘Perpetual Acolyte’ of the Buddha
The Copper Coinage of Demetrius, the Son of Euthydemus
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Howard Hayes Scullard 1903-1983
Annius Plocamus
Kandahar of the Arab conquest
The problem of tin in the ancient world
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Of Seeds and Sprouts
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History as Memory
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Nearchus, Guides, and Place Names on Alexander’s Expedition
Pausanias and Rome’s Eastern Trade
Understanding Transitions at the Crossroads of Asia
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Placing Greco-Roman History in World Historical Context
Onesicritus, Naked Wise Men, and the Cynics' Alexander
Khorezmian Walled Sites of the Seventh Century Bc—Fourth Century Ad
Ethnic Constructs in Antiquity
The Pasts of Roman Anatolia
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| Highly cited | No |