Memory as history : the legacy of Alexander in Asia
| Parallelsachtitel: |
Legacy of Alexander in Asia |
|---|---|
| Weitere Verfasser: |
Potts, Daniel T.
Ray, Himanshu Prabha |
| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
New Delhi :
Aryan Books International,
2007.
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| Umfang/Format: |
xv, 263 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps ; 30 cm. |
| Schlagworte: | |
| iDAI.gazetteer: |
Mittelasien Asia |
| Inhalte/Bestandteile: | 15 Datensätze |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction: "Wild follies and ostentatious displays': reflections on Alexander the Great in India and the question of collective memory / Stephen Garton
- Alexander's historians and the Alexander romance: a comparative study of the representation of India and Indians / Ioannis Xydopoulos
- Alexander's mythic journey into India / Alastair J.L. Blanshard
- Alexander and the virtuous Indians / Andy T. Fear
- The Syriac sources of the early Arabic narratives of Alexander / Kevin van Bladel
- Visual illustrations of the life of Alexander in Persian manscripts / Nasim Akhtar
- Alexander and Asia: Droysen and Grote / Phiroze Vasunia
- Alexander's campaign (327-326 BC): a chronological marker in the archaeology of India / Himanshu Prabha Ray
- Differing modes of contact between India and the West: some Achaemenid and Seleucid examples / Daniel T. Potts
- Recent discoveries of Buddhist manuscripts from Afghanistan and Pakistan: the heritage of the Greeks in the North-west / Mark Allon
- Alexander's lost kingdom: from Diodotus to Strato III / Robert Bracey
- Travelling to India without Alexander's log-books / Jean-François Salles
- Hellenism in an Afghan context / Grant Parker
- Creating Alexander's legacy in Egypt / Marie-Françoise Boussac
- Not just a pretty face: interpretations of Alexander's numismatic imagery in the Hellenic East / Shailendra Bhandare.
