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HELLENISM IN ASIA 

 

 

Text Box: From Alexander and his successors, the history of the Hellenic kingdoms that existed more than two thousand years ago from Greece up to the Northern Afghanistan and India has been preserved through the impressive works of archaeology providing us  a memorable narrative of a now forgotten people, their lives and the events that led them to prosper and then to silently disappear from the pages of history.

 

 

 

 

 

The photos are from the personal archives of  Mrs Potitsa Grigoratou Parnassos.
 


Bibliography

Arora, U.P. (ed.).  1991. Graeco-Indica - India's Cultural Contacts with the Greek World. N. Delhi:  Ramanand Vidya Bhawan.

 

Cosmidis, Dimitris and  Lyberis, Nikos. 2006. "Before and after Alexander: Hellenism and Central Asia", Athens: www.archive.gr

 

Dondis, Dione Marcos, 2003. Το Χρονικό των Ελλήνων στις Ινδίες 1750-1950 (A Chronicle of the Greeks in India 1750-1950), Athens: Dodoni.

 

Doshi, Saryu (ed.).  1985. India and Greece - Connections and Parallels. Bombay: Marg Publications.

 

Grigorakou-Parnassos, Dr. Potitsa. 2007. "Hellenism in the Orient or the Spread of the Greek Civilization in Asia". Athens: Indika Online.

 

Γρηγοράκου-Παρνασός, Δρ. Ποτίτσα. 2007. "Οι Πόλεις Του Αλεξάνδρου και ο Ελληνιστικός Κόσμος στην Ασία" Αθήνα: ΙΝΔΙΚΑ Online.

 

Kartunen, Klaus. 1997. India and the Hellenistic World.  Helsinki. Studia Orientalia.

 

Sarianidi, Victor. 1995. Βασιλικοί Τάφοι στην Βακτριανή (Royal Tombs in Bactria), Thessaloniki.

 

Sedlar, Jean W. 1980. India and the Greek World. Totowa, New Jersey: Rowman and Littlefield.

 

Tarn, W.W. 1951 [reprinted 1966]. The Greeks in Bactria and India, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

 

Vassiliades, Demetrios, 2000. The Greeks in India: A Survey in Philosophical Understanding, New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal.

 



 



 


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1. Alexander’s expedition from Macedonia to India (331-323 b.C.).

2. Greek Cities In Asia. (Photo Pierre Leriche).

3. The Routes Between Mediterranean and Central Asia.

4. Influence of the Greek Architecture - Petra.

5. Influence of the Greek Architecture - Palmyra.

6. Theatre of Gerasa.

7. Coin of Petra with Greek Inscriptions.

8. Hellenistic Alexandria in 3D, according to the French archeological Institute of Alexandria.

9. Aphrodite-Isis, melted culture and religion, 1st century, Museum of Tanta.

10. Hellenistic Cities in Roman Period - Corinthian Columns in Apamia.

11. Hellenistic Cities in Roman Period - Mosaics of Zeugma.

12. Hellenistic Cities in Roman Period - Corinthian Columns in Gerasa.

13. Greek Kings,Greco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek kingdoms - Greek Gods at the reverse side of the coins. Zeus, Hercules and Athena Alkidimos protector of Macedonia.

14. Kushan coin of king Kaniska, greek inscriptions VASILEOS KANISKOU in front ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ KΑΝΗΣΚΟΥ in Greek, and the Greek goddess SELINI – ΣΕΛΗΝΗ on the rear in Greek. 1st  century. (Photo: Osmund Bopearachchi).

15. The Hellenistic City of Ai Khanum.

16. The Hellenistic City of Ai Khanum - Greek Theater.

17. The Hellenistic City of Ai Khanum - Mosaics with Macedonian Symbols.

18. Kushan Art with Greek Influence -  Ring-seal with Athena.

19. Kushan Art with Greek Influence -  Venus.

20. Kushan Art with Greek Influence -  Dionysos and Ariadne.

21. Kushan Art with Greek Influence -  Writing with Greek Alphabet.

22. Greco Buddhist Art of Gandhara - Buddha with Greek chiton and Apollonian features. (Photo: O. Bopearachchi).

23. Buddha with Hercules and Alexander. Haddha Afghanistan 2nd century. (Restoration and photo: Z. Tarzi).

24. Detail of 23 - Hercules.

25. Detail of 23 - Alexander.

26. Gandhara art with Greek Plasticity - Praxitelian Head of Kore from Uzbekistan, 2nd c. (Photo: Galina Pughatsenkova).

27. Recent Afghan Currency with Greek Coat of Arms and
Greek Inscription,
Greek Bactrian King EUKRATIDOU MEGALOU VASILEOS in Greek.

 

 

DEMETRIOS GALANOS THE ATHENIAN (1760 -1833) - Α GREEK INDOLOGIST.

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