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.
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.