Olga Kubica

Greco-Buddhist Relations in the Hellenistic Far East (eBook, ePUB)

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• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary view of the relationship between the Greeks and Buddhist communities in ancient Bactria and Northwest India, from the conquests of Alexander the Great to the fall of the Indo-Greek kingdom circa 10 AD. Suitable for those working on the Greco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek kingdoms.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000868562
• Artikelnr.: 67503033

Autorenporträt

Olga Kubica is Lecturer of Classics at the University of Wroclaw. She has finished her PhD in Ancient History as part of the international PhD project "The Eastern Mediterranean from the 4th C. BC until Late Antiquity" at the University of Wroclaw, with internships at the University of Liverpool and Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; 1. Contexts for sources; 2. The Dhamma of A
oka in the context of Greco-Mauryan contacts; 3. Between A
oka and Menander: a few notes on the Greco-Bactrian kingdom; 4. Menander and the Indo-Greek kingdom; 5. Gandh
ra; 6. Late Greek sources about Buddhism in India; Conclusion; Appendices.