Title With Alexander in India and Central Asia : moving east and back to west / edited by Claudia Antonetti and Paolo Biagi

Published Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (x, 292 pages) : illustrations Contents Introduction / P. Biagi and C. Antonetti -- Part I. Babylon, the Upper Satrapies and the Iranian peoples. Kislïmu day 10, year 31, Seleucus and Antiochus the kings: Greek elements in Babylonian sources / P. Corò -- Aspects of Seleucid iconography and kingship / V. Messina -- Alexandre le Grand en Asie Centrale: geographie et strategie de la conquete des Portes Caspiennes à l'Inde / C. Rapin -- The Scythians and the eastern limits of the Greek influence: the Pazyryk Culture and its foreign artistic influences / L. Crescioli -- Alexandre le Grand et les Russes: un regard sur le conquérant porté depuis l'Asie Centrale / S. Gorshenina -- Parthia, Bactria and India: the Iranian policies of Alexander of Macedonia (330-323) / M. Olbrycht. Part II. From Paropamisus to the Indus mouth and to the Persian Gulf. The Indian Caucasus from Alexander to Eratosthenes / F. Prontera -- Megasthenes thirty years later / A. Zambrini -- Indian ethnography in Alexandrian sources: a missed opportunity? / S. Beggiora -- Uneasy riders: with Alexander and Nearchus from Pattala to Rhambakia / P. Biagi -- From the Indus to the Pasitigris: some remarks on the Periplus of Nearchus in the Arrian's Indiké / V. Bucciantini Notes "Compendium of papers from the international conference Anabasi: Sulle orme di Alessandro dalla morte di Dario that was held in Venice on 16th-17th October and 17th-18th November, 2014." Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Chapters in English and French Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed Subject Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C. -- Congresses SUBJECT Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C. fast Subject HISTORY -- Ancient -- Greece. Military campaigns SUBJECT Greece -- History -- Macedonian Expansion, 359-323 B.C. -- Campaigns -- India -- Congresses Greece -- History -- Macedonian Expansion, 359-323 B.C. -- Campaigns -- Asia, Central -- Congresses Subject Central Asia Greece India India. Genre/Form proceedings (reports) Conference papers and proceedings History Conference papers and proceedings. Actes de congrès. Form Electronic book Author Antonetti, Claudia, editor. Biagi, Paolo, 1948- editor. LC no. 2017018837 ISBN 9781785705854 1785705857

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