Rachel Mairs - The Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek World

The Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek World

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 regions archaeology, written and numismatic sources, and a history of scholarship on 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. 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.

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The Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek World

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Names: Mairs, Rachel, editor, author.
Title: The Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek world / edited by Rachel Mairs.
Description: New York: Routledge, 2021. | Series: Routledge worlds | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020022295 (print) | LCCN 2020022296 (ebook) | Subjects: LCSH: BactriaAntiquities. | Asia, CentralAntiquities. | IndiaAntiquities. | GreeksAsia, CentralHistory. | Indo-GreeksHistory. | Coins, GreekAsia, Central. | CoinageAsia, CentralHistory.
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Contents

Rachel Mairs

Rolf Strootman

Sushma Jansari

Jacopo Bruno

Sren Stark

Lukas Nickel

Omar Coloru

Annick Fenet

Svetlana Gorshenina and Claude Rapin

Laurianne Martinez-Sve

Ladislav Stano

Gunvor Lindstrm

Bertille Lyonnet

Gabriele Puschnigg

Warwick Ball

Luca M. Olivieri

Rachel Mairs

Olga Kubica

Juping Yang

Simon Glenn

Sushma Jansari

Jens Jakobsson

Olivier Bordeaux

Shailendra Bhandare

Guy Lecuyot

Milinda Hoo

Suchandra Ghosh

Lauren Morris

Xin Wu

Cameron A. Petrie

Joe Cribb

Warwick Ball is an archaeologist and former acting director of the British Institute of Afghan Studies who participated in the British excavations at Kandahar and carried out field work elsewhere in Afghanistan. He is founder editor of Afghanistan , the journal of the American Institute of Afghanistan Studies, and author of many books and articles on the history and archaeology of the region, including the Archaeological Gazetteer of Afghanistan (1982, new edition 2019).

Shailendra Bhandare is Senior Assistant Keeper at the Heberden Coin Room, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. He specializes in the numismatics and monetary history of the Indian subcontinent and adjoining areas, and his research focuses on providing varied contexts for coin evidence. One of his recent contributions is titled Numismatics of the Other: Investigating coinage and Greekness at Taxila, which was published in Buddhism and Gandhara, an Archaeology of Museum Collections .