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Western, Eastern, Both, or Neither?
Studia Hercynia, 2023 Ideas of Hellenistic Central Asia as a cultural melting pot, resulting from the fusion of Eastern and Western cultures after Alexander the Great, continue to have considerable scholarly and popular appeal. While the Western component of the supposed melting pot generally stands for Greek influence as a dynamic actuating force, the Eastern component ...
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, 2013 International audienceAt the crossroads of Central Asia and Iran the pre-Achaemenid city excavated in Ulug depe (Turkmenistan), includes a citadel of proto-Median type. The pottery is typical of the pre-Achaemenid period in Central Asia.
Bendezu-Sarmiento, Julio +3 more
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Hellenistic World and the Silk Road [PDF]
, 2013 The conquests of Alexander and the formation of the Hellenistic world stimulated and accelerated cultural and economic exchanges among the ancient civilizations of Central Asia, India, the eastern Mediterranean, and Europe.
Juping, Yang
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Revealing lost secrets about Yingpan Man and the Silk Road. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2022 Wang T +5 more
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Thoughts on the Iconography of the Sophytos Coinage [PDF]
The iconography of the coinage issued by Sophytos in early Hellenistic Bactria is analysed. It has long been recognised that the iconography involving a cockerel, winged cheek-guards and an “open 8” caduceus suggests the invocation of the Greek god ...
Härtel, Stefan
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The Hellenic Axel: The Greek Hellenization of Central Asia and its Impact of the Development of Buddhism [PDF]
, 2014 The study of the Hellenistic period has produced a historical construction of the various relationships that formed between the Greco-Macedonian settlers and the natives they came into contact with.
Hysi, Ledio
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Typology and Chronology of Ceramics of Bactra, Afghanistan 600 BCE-500 CE. [PDF]
, 2015 Bactra was the capital of Bactria during the Achaemenid and Seleucid periods, as well as the capital city of the Graeco-Bactrian Empire. It remained one of the most populous cities in pre-Islamic Central Asia and was a center of trade along the Silk ...
Maxwell-Jones, Charlotte Elizabeth
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Ingesting Magic: Ingredients and Ecstatic Outcomes in the Greek and Demotic Magical Papyri [PDF]
, 2017 There are spells in the Greek and Demotic Magical Papyri which promise divine visitations, assistants, ecstatic states, vessel inquiries, and vivid dreams. They also require powerful psychoactive botanical ingredients.
Sumler, Alan
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