The Greeks in Asia

New York: Thames & Hudson, 2015. Cloth, 240 pages, illustrations (some colour), maps; 27 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "This book recounts the influence of Greek communities and their culture across Central Asia, India and Western China, from the Bronze Age through the rise of Islam." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Greece and the east: beginnings. Eastern origins; Greeks going east; Greeks and Achaemenid Persia. The confrontation; Greeks in the Persian Empire; The view from home; The view from Homeric heritage; Greeks and Alexander "the Great." The invasion of the Persian Empire; Into Asia; The Hellenistic heritage: 3rd to 1st centuries BC; The new Greek kingdoms in the east. The kingdoms; Their cities and art; Their coinage; Greeks and their arts in Central Asia. Greeks and nomads: Scythians, Sarmatians; The Yuehzhi and Tillya Tepe; The farther east; Greeks and their arts in India. The Mauryans and Buddhism; The Sunga dynasty; Taxila and Gandhara; Greek and/or Roman - a memo; The "Gandhara style" in sculpture; Greeks, Romans, Parthians and Sasanians: before Islam; Epilogue: myth, history and archeology.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to. Collectible.