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Memory as history : the legacy of Alexander in Asia
- Title
- Memory as history : the legacy of Alexander in Asia / edited by Himanshu Prabha Ray, Daniel T. Potts.
- Publication
- New Delhi : Aryan Books International, 2007.
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- Description
- xv, 263 pages : illustrations (some color); 31 cm
- Summary
- Contributed papers presented at a conference organised in February-March, 2006 in New Delhi.
- Subject
- Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C. > Congresses
- Note
- Chiefly papers from a conference held 2006 in New Delhi.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- ISBN
- 8173053251 (hd. bd.)
- 9788173053252 (hd. bd.)
- 817305326X (pbk.)
- 9788173053269 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 2007434514
- OCLC
- ocn123418093
- SCSB-14298020
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries