With Alexander in India and Central Asia : moving east and back to west / edited by Claudia Antonetti and Paolo Biagi.

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

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Chapters in English and French.