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245 00 $aMemory as history :$bthe legacy of Alexander in Asia /$cedited by Himanshu Prabha Ray, Daniel T. Potts.
246 30 $aLegacy of Alexander in Asia
260 $aNew Delhi :$bAryan Books International,$c2007.
300 $axv, 263 p. :$bill. (chiefly col.), maps ;$c30 cm.
520 $aContributed papers presented at a conference organised in February-March, 2006 in New Delhi.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: "Wild follies and ostentatious displays': reflections on Alexander the Great in India and the question of collective memory / Stephen Garton -- Alexander's historians and the Alexander romance: a comparative study of the representation of India and Indians / Ioannis Xydopoulos -- Alexander's mythic journey into India / Alastair J.L. Blanshard -- Alexander and the virtuous Indians / Andy T. Fear -- The Syriac sources of the early Arabic narratives of Alexander / Kevin van Bladel -- Visual illustrations of the life of Alexander in Persian manscripts / Nasim Akhtar -- Alexander and Asia: Droysen and Grote / Phiroze Vasunia -- Alexander's campaign (327-326 BC): a chronological marker in the archaeology of India / Himanshu Prabha Ray -- Differing modes of contact between India and the West: some Achaemenid and Seleucid examples / Daniel T. Potts -- Recent discoveries of Buddhist manuscripts from Afghanistan and Pakistan: the heritage of the Greeks in the North-west / Mark Allon -- Alexander's lost kingdom: from Diodotus to Strato III / Robert Bracey -- Travelling to India without Alexander's log-books / Jean-François Salles -- Hellenism in an Afghan context / Grant Parker -- Creating Alexander's legacy in Egypt / Marie-Françoise Boussac -- Not just a pretty face: interpretations of Alexander's numismatic imagery in the Hellenic East / Shailendra Bhandare.
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