With Alexander in India and Central Asia : moving east and back to west /
edited by Claudia Antonetti and Paolo Biagi.
- Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, (c)2017.
- 1 online resource (x, 292 pages) : illustrations
"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."
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction / Babylon, the Upper Satrapies and the Iranian peoples -- Kislïmu day 10, year 31, Seleucus and Antiochus the kings: Greek elements in Babylonian sources / Aspects of Seleucid iconography and kingship / Alexandre le Grand en Asie Centrale: geographie et strategie de la conquete des Portes Caspiennes à l'Inde / The Scythians and the eastern limits of the Greek influence: the Pazyryk Culture and its foreign artistic influences / Alexandre le Grand et les Russes: un regard sur le conquérant porté depuis l'Asie Centrale / Parthia, Bactria and India: the Iranian policies of Alexander of Macedonia (330-323) / From Paropamisus to the Indus mouth and to the Persian Gulf -- The Indian Caucasus from Alexander to Eratosthenes / Megasthenes thirty years later / Indian ethnography in Alexandrian sources: a missed opportunity? / Uneasy riders: with Alexander and Nearchus from Pattala to Rhambakia / From the Indus to the Pasitigris: some remarks on the Periplus of Nearchus in the Arrian's Indiké / P. Biagi and C. Antonetti -- P. Corò -- V. Messina -- C. Rapin -- L. Crescioli -- S. Gorshenina -- M. Olbrycht. -- F. Prontera -- A. Zambrini -- S. Beggiora -- P. Biagi -- V. Bucciantini.
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Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C. --Congresses.