Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Anabasi: Sulle orme di Alessandro dalla morte di Dario (Conference) (2014 : Venice, Italy)

Publication

Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2017.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Antonetti, Claudia
• Biagi, Paolo, 1948-

Description

x, 292 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

• Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C
• Macedonian Expansion (Greece : 359-323 B.C.)
• 359-323 B.C
• Military campaigns
• Greece > History > Campaigns > Macedonian Expansion, 359-323 B.C. > India
• Greece > History > Campaigns > Macedonian Expansion, 359-323 B.C. > Asia, Central
• India
• Central Asia
• Greece
• India

Genre/Form

• History
• History.

Note

• "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 (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• Chapters in English and French.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 9781785705847 (pbk.)
• 1785705849 (pbk.)
• 9781785705854 (epub) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2017002721

OCLC

• 982221786
• SCSB-12396695

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library