Greco-India: an introduction

[apollinaris]

The empire of Achaemenid Persia was inherited by its Greek conquerors, who settled and founded new cities eastwards to the Indus. The eastern satrapies of Persia are now known as Greco-India.

Because this culture seems to me important, yet largely ignored in the history of Antiquity, I will be exploring in the following weeks what we can learn of

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[endlessrarities]

Thanks for these posts - it's not often that our Eurocentric culture considers the influences of the Greco-Roman cultures in the eastern realms. So often it seems like never the twain shall meet. Which is, of course, blatantly untrue.

I look forward to seeing the rest of the series and broadening my cultural horizons.

Shame about the coins in Kabul. Sounds like it's yet another small tragedy in a whole succession of cultural disasters that have befallen that unfortunate country...

[apollinaris]

Very kind of you to say so.

Yesterday, I did a survey of archaeology blogs - supposedly the leading ones - and of all of them, I found just one comment on one post. And zero pings/trackbacks.
I know we have readers (from the stats and Google Analytics), but comments are a great rarity. Except, of course, on your blog and a few others in LiveJournal.
I see how you do it - be lighthearted - but that's not the way I think and feel on the subject I follow.

Yes, I am following a theme; I have been leading a team on this subject, largely out of the public gaze. We have been able to take a view on some issues, but I am struggling with Greek philosophy and the broad sweep of theology in Antiquity.

My aim is to try and draw some of the threads together. I really don't know how well it will work out.

I appreciate knowing you are there (or here).

[endlessrarities]

To be brutally honest, I started blogging as a writer first and as an archaeologist second. I've been surprised myself how often archaeology tends to take over my blogging life. This is perhaps because I'm in literary limbo right now, with a novel that's been stalled at the publisher's for what seems like an eternity...

Unfortunately, archaeology plays such a big part in my life that it has a habit of forcing way through to the surface when I least expect it.

[skylightdance]

I found this to be very informative and I realize how long it's been since I read something so esoteric with Alexander, lol, but of course archaeology is by it's nature that way. And it might do me good to activate my mind some more :-)