Good day everyone, thanks to be on Alessandro III di Macedonia. Today I’ve some new books coming out soon to share with you. Let’s start with the first!
The Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek World
By Rachel Mairs
Out on: November 30, 2020
Published by: Routledge
This volume provides a thorough conspectus of the field of Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek studies, mixing theoretical and historical surveys with critical and thought-provoking case studies in archaeology, history, literature and art.
The chapters from this international group of experts showcase innovative methodologies, such as archaeological GIS, as well as providing accessible explanations of specialist techniques such as die studies of coins, and important theoretical perspectives, including postcolonial approaches to the Greeks in India. Chapters cover the region’s archaeology, written and numismatic sources, and a history of scholarship of the subject, as well as culture, identity and interactions with neighbouring empires, including India and China.
The Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek World is the go-to reference work on the field, and fulfils a serious need for an accessible, but also thorough and critically-informed, volume on the Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek kingdoms. It provides an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the Hellenistic East.
Rachel Mairs is Professor of Classics and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Reading, UK. She has previously held positions at New York University, the University of Oxford and Brown University. Her publications include The Hellenistic Far East:Archaeology, Language and Identity in Greek Central Asia (2014), Archaeologists, Tourists, Interpreters (with Maya Muratov, 2015) and From Khartoum to Jerusalem: The Dragoman Solomon Negima and his Clients (2016). In 2016 she founded the Hellenistic Central Asia Research Network.
| Hardback | eBook |
| ISBN 9781138090699 November 30, 2020 712 Pages 186 B/W Illustrations £ 190.00 | ISBN 9781315108513 November 30, 2020 712 Pages 186 B/W Illustrations £ 35.99 |
Table of Contents:
1. Introduction. – Rachel Mairs
Part I: Interactions
2. The Seleukid Empire – Rolf Strootman
3. South Asia – Sushma Jansari
4. Parthia – Jacopo Bruno
5. Central Asia and the Steppe – Sören Stark
6. China and Bactria during the reign of Emperor Wu in written tradition and in archaeology – Lukas Nickel
Part II: History of scholarship
7. The Quest for Bactra: Scholarship on the Graeco-Bactrian kingdom from its origins to the end of colonialism – Omar Coloru
8. The Original ‘failure’? A century of French archaeology in Afghan Bactria – Annick Fenet
9. Hellenism with or without Alexander the Great: Russian, Soviet and Central Asian approaches – Svetlana Gorshenina and Claude Rapin
Part IV: Regional archaeological survey
10. Afghan Bactria – Laurianne Martienz-Sève
11. Southern Uzbekistan – Ladislav Stančo
12. Southern Tajikistan – Gunvor Lindström
13. Sogdiana – Bertille Lyonnet
14. Merv and Margiana – Gabriele Puschnigg
15. Arachosia, Drangiana and Areia – Warwick Ball
16. Gandhāra and North-Western India – Luca M. Olivieri
Part IV: Written sources
17. Greek inscriptions and documentary texts and the Graeco-Roman historical tradition – Rachel Mairs
18. Reading the Milindapañha: Indian historical sources and the Greeks in Bactria – Olga Kubica
19. Chinese historical sources and the Greeks in the Western Regions – Juping Yang
Part V: Numismatic sources
20. History from coins: The role of numismatics in the study of the Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek worlds – Simon Glenn
21. Two sides of the coin: from Sophytes to Skanda-Kārttikeya – Sushma Jansari
22. Dating Bactria’s independence to 246/5 BC? – Jens Jakobsson
23. Monetary politics during the early Graeco-Bactrian kingdom (250-190 BCE) – Olivier Bordeaux
24. The last phase of the Indo-Greeks: Methods, interpretations and new insights in reconstructing the past – Shailendra Bhandare
Part VI: Culture and identity
25. Ai Khanoum, between east and west: A composite architecture – Guy Lecuyot
26. Globalization and interpreting visual culture – Milinda Hoo
27. Representation of Greek gods/goddesses in Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek visual culture – Suchandra Ghosh
28. Roman objects in the Begram hoard and the memory of Greek rule in Kushan Central Asia – Lauren Morris
Part VII: Beyond the Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek worlds
29. Central Asia in the Achaemenid period – Xin Wu
30. Achaemenid north-west South Asia – Cameron A. Petrie
31. Greekness after the end of the Bactrian and Indo-Greek kingdoms – Joe Cribb
Related Subjects:
- Ancient Near East
- Greek History & Culture
- Near Eastern Archaeology
- Classical Greek & Roman Archaeology
- Asian Archaeology
- Middle Eastern Archaeology
Although I’m very interested in reading it I’ll wait for the paperback edition because it’s too expensive for me. Are you also interested in this release? Let me know, good day everyone
Alessandro III di Macedonia 